Lashley's conclusions from his engram research were based on certain unnecessary assumptions, which later psychologists have discarded. One of those assumptions was that the:
A) brain treats all kinds of memory the same way.
B) left hemisphere of the brain is simply the mirror image of the right hemisphere.
C) physiological mechanisms of learning in rats are similar to those in humans.
D) hippocampus is more important for storage than it is for retrieval.

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Later research has shown that the brain processes different types of memory differently, and that there are distinct brain regions involved in each type. Therefore, the assumption that all memory is treated the same way is unnecessary and incorrect.

Lashley's Conclusions from His Engram Research Were Based on Certain