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  • adjective Of, or relating to Donald Hebb or his theories and techniques.

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Hebb +‎ -ian

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Examples

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

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Now called Hebbian learning, it's often expressed as a situation in which 'neurons that fire together wire together.'"

    Slashdot: Science 2008

  • But as we know from our discussion of Hebbian learning, neurons that fire together wire together.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • But as we know from our discussion of Hebbian learning, neurons that fire together wire together.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The brain learns, because of this Hebbian associative link, that the mere command to move the arm creates a sensation of a paralyzed arm, and then, when you've amputated the arm, this learned paralysis carries over into the -- into your body image and into your phantom, OK?

    VS Ramachandran on your mind 2007

  • The brain learns, because of this Hebbian associative link, that the mere command to move the arm creates a sensation of a paralyzed arm, and then, when you've amputated the arm, this learned paralysis carries over into the -- into your body image and into your phantom, OK?

    VS Ramachandran on your mind 2007

  • The brain learns, because of this Hebbian associative link, that the mere command to move the arm creates a sensation of a paralyzed arm, and then, when you've amputated the arm, this learned paralysis carries over into the -- into your body image and into your phantom, OK?

    VS Ramachandran on your mind 2007

  • This process—the root of all synaptic learning—goes by the name “Hebbian learning,” after the Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb, who first proposed the model in 1949.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Hebbian learning hedonism heights, fear of heroin hippocampus

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

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