Hebb: cell assemblies and experience-dependent neural organization

What changed

Experience-dependent neural organization became a concrete explanatory research programme linking cells to behavior.

Scientific scope

The 1949 book; later plasticity experiments, simplified slogans and machine-learning algorithms are excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is anchored to the 1949 book. It does not reduce the whole work to the later slogan “cells that fire together wire together,” nor claim that Hebb supplied a modern optimization algorithm.

Contributors

• Donald O. Hebb · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Hebb, The Organization of Behavior (1949)
• Open Library: The Organization of Behavior

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