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  • And I guess, the way I think about it based upon what we know today is that exercise changes the molecular and cellular building blocks which supports learning and various aspects of cognition, whereas cognitive training strengthens specific connections -we know from a fellow by the name of Hebb many years ago - and will improve specific abilities, but it's pretty tough to get general improvements.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • In reply came the low, mourner's-bench, meek voice of a South Carolina recruit: "It hain't a cigaroot, Sergeant; it's a lightnin'-bug as big as a search-light on 'Pin-Head' Hebb's mustache."

    Bamboo Tales J. Alexander [Illustrator] Mackay 1905

  • These were (1) the question, why the ideas of Vygotsky and Luria have begun to have a serious influence in the United States only in the last couple of decades, even though their most innovative work was largely done in the late Twenties and early Thirties; and (2) the possibility that the historical-cum-neurological approach exemplified in Luria's and Vygotsky's writings may provide a basis for re-establishing lines of communication between the "moral sciences" and the "natural sciences" of a kind that American psychologists of the same period (such as Hebb and Lashley) were never able to do.

    Revelations of Vygotsky Weber, Lillian 1979

  • April 23 at the Capitol Hill Vita, in what organizer Michael Hebb expects to be an explosive conversation about how and what we feed our children.

    Words, wine, American Buffalo & Nina Planck 2009

  • This mechanism is called Hebbian learning for Donald Hebb, the Canadian psychologist who proposed it in 1949.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The business went bankrupt and Mr. Hebb relocated to Seattle.

    Potato and Green Garlic Soup 2011

  • In 1999, Ms. Pomeroy entered the culinary world with her then-boyfriend, Michael Hebb in 2004 the couple married and became the Hebberoys.

    Potato and Green Garlic Soup 2011

  • Tom French from the project will be at the event to talk about school food policy, and EFP chef Andrew Radziolowski will be cooking with Hebb in the kitchen.

    Words, wine, American Buffalo & Nina Planck 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from David H. Hebb wrote 1 year 4 days ago

    Bobcat Takes Down Mule Deer 2009

  • This mechanism is called Hebbian learning for Donald Hebb, the Canadian psychologist who proposed it in 1949.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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