Donald O. Hebb
Psychologist, Academic
1904 – 1985
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Who was Donald O. Hebb?
Donald Olding Hebb FRS 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.
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- When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1904
Chester - Also known as
- D. O. Hebb
- Donald Hebb
- Donald Olding Hebb
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Nichols Donovan
(1937 - 1962) - Marion Isabel Clark
(1931 - 1933/07/22) - Margaret Doreen Wright
(1966 - 1983)
- Elizabeth Nichols Donovan
- Children
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, Harvard University
Psychology
(1935/09 - ) - Doctorate, University of Chicago
Psychology
(1934 - 1935) - Master's Degree, McGill University
Clinical psychology
(1931 - 1934) - Bachelor of Arts, Dalhousie University
(1925 - 1928)
- Doctorate, Harvard University
- Employment
- President, American Psychological Association
(1960 - ) - Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University
(1976 - ) - Chairman of Psychology Department, McGill University
(1948 - 1972) - McGill University
(1947 - 1948) - Yerkes National Primate Research Center
(1942 - 1947) - Assistant Professor, Queen's University
(1939 - 1942) - Research Fellow, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
(1937 - 1939) - Research Assistant, Radcliffe College
(1936 - 1937) - Headmaster
(1928 - 1934)
- President, American Psychological Association
- Lived in
- Canada
- Died
- Aug 20, 1985
Nova Scotia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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