Birth: July 1, 1929 Death: May 17, 2014
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which eithe….
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatab….
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe..
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is….
Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This w….
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process.
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unli….
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machi….
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan..
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it ….
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the syn….
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system h….