In 1949, Donald Hebb predicted a form of synaptic plasticity driven by temporal contiguity of pre- and postsynaptic activity. This prediction was verified decades later with the discovery of long ...

Many people think of psychology as being primarily about mental health, but its story goes far beyond that. As the science of ...

A journalist once asked the behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb whether a person’s genes or environment mattered most to the development of personality. Hebb replied that the question was akin to ...

The development and embellishment of the McCulloch and Pitts hallucination about neurons firing or not firing continued in 1949, when psychologist Donald Hebb advanced a theory of how neural ...

Proposed by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb in 1949, the law states that when two neurons are activated simultaneously, the ...