Advanced Training. After earning his A.B. at West Virginia in 1910, Lashley applied for and was awarded a teaching fellowship in biology at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught several laboratory sections of the biology course, and carried out the research for his Master's thesis. Unquestionably the most important aspect of Lashley's year at Pittsburgh was his contact with another teaching fellow, Karl Dallenbach, a psychologist. Dallenbach's memory of their year together includes the following observation