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Donald Olding Hebb
d.20 Aug 1985 Nova Scotia, Canada
  1. Donald Olding Hebb1904 - 1985
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Name Donald Olding Hebb
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Jul 1904 Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death[1] 20 Aug 1985 Nova Scotia, Canada
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Donald Olding Hebb FRS[1] (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. He is best known for his theory of Hebbian learning, which he introduced in his classic 1949 work The Organization of Behavior. He has been described as the father of neuropsychology and neural networks. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Hebb as the 19th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. His views on learning described behavior and thought in terms of brain function, explaining cognitive processes in terms of connections between neuron assemblies.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Donald O. Hebb, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.