Karl Lashley studied how memories (or engrams) were stored i…
Karl Lashley studied how memories (or engrams) were stored in the brain by training rats to run a maze and then creating lesions of various sizes in different locations in the brain. When he tested the rats again, he found that the degree of the rats’ impairments on maze running was related to the size but not the location of the lesion. From this, Lashley (wrongly) concluded that the brain works on the principles of ________.