Hebb, Donald O.

(b. 1904, Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 1985, Ph. D. Psychology, Harvard University, 1936). Hebb spent most of his academic career at McGill University in Montreal, where he became an influential theorist concerned with the relation between the brain and behavior. His most important book, The Organization of Behavior (1949), was influential in the development of connectionism.
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