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Also Known As Karl Spencer Lashley • Karl S. Lashley
Born June 7, 1890 • West Virginia
Died August 7, 1958 (aged 68) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Brain Mechanism and Intelligence”
Subjects Of Study brain • equipotentiality • mass action
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian psychiatrist
Théodule-Armand Ribot
French psychologist
Harry F. Harlow
American psychologist
John Money
American psychologist
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
William Moulton Marston, a pioneer in developing the lie detector
William Moulton Marston
American psychologist
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
American psychologist
George A. Miller
American psychologist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Edward L. Thorndike
American psychologist
G. Stanley Hall.
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist