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Donald Olding Hebb FRS (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning.
Dec 1, 2003 · Abstract. Neuroscientists associate the name of Donald O. Hebb with the Hebbian synapse and the Hebbian learning rule, which underlie connectionist theories and synaptic plasticity, but...
- Richard E. Brown, Peter M. Milner
- 2003
Apr 6, 2020 · This meeting celebrates the 70th anniversary of the publication of The Organization of Behavior by Donald O. Hebb . Since its publication, The Organization of Behavior has become one of the most influential books in Psychology and Neuroscience (over 31,200 Google scholar citations in January 2020).
- Richard E. Brown
- rebrown@dal.ca
- 2020
Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a prominent Canadian psychologist. His seminal book The Organization of Behavior, published in 1949, established Hebb's position in psychology, and led to him being described as the father of neuropsychology, although that title might also belong to Alexander Luria, and of neural networks.
Jan 1, 2005 · Early models which made use of the Hebbian synapse are described, and then illustrative examples are given detailing the impact of Hebb's idea in relation to learning and memory, synaptic plasticity and stability, and the question of persistent cortical activity underlying forms of short-term memory. Previous.
- Steven J. Cooper
- 2005
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Donald Olding (D. O.) Hebb (1904-1985) was, during his lifetime, an extraordinarily influential figure for the disciplines of psychology and behavioral and computational neuroscience.
Donald Hebb was known as the “father of neuropsychology” for his work in merging the worlds of psychology and neuroscience. This was largely accomplished through his seminal work The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory, published in 1949.
