Practice question · True or false
Lashley's lesion experiments showed that a specific memory trace sits in one identifiable cortical region.
Hints
- What predicted the deficit, where he cut, or how much?
- Equipotentiality and mass action.
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False
Why
False. Lashley found the deficit tracked the amount of cortex removed rather than its location, which is why he never found the engram and proposed mass action and equipotentiality. Modern work qualifies this, some memories are quite localised, but distribution was the finding.
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