Doctor Hebb discovered that the more times a connection is made in the neurons, the correlation between them increases, thus making them more responsive. He wrote down his findings in his book, "The Organization of Behaviour" (1949).
An example of Hebbian's Theory is represented in the math equation 2+2=4. A child learning this for the first time must individually add up each of the numbers to find the answer, opposed to somebody who has done the question multiple times and will have the neural networks formed to know instantly that 2+2=4. They will not need to add up the individual numbers.
Hebb brought the understanding of the brain from the metaphysical world to the physical, scientific realm. Previously, people did not know how behaviour and learning worked within the brain. Hebb used this theory to speculate that behaviour and learning was a neurological response.
An example of this is when an action is associated with pain. The reason why this occurs is because the neurons have created a link in your brain with that action's neural network and the pain neural network. So every time you think of this action , the neurons will jump to the pain network. This bond will continue to increase the more times this action is repeated. Word association is another example of how this works. For example, when you think of a fish, one of the words you will think of next is water because almost every time you see a fish, it will be in water because they need water to survive.
Hebb is also credited with designing and testing animals in intelligence tests.
An example of Hebbian's Theory is represented in the math equation 2+2=4. A child learning this for the first time must individually add up each of the numbers to find the answer, opposed to somebody who has done the question multiple times and will have the neural networks formed to know instantly that 2+2=4. They will not need to add up the individual numbers.
Hebb brought the understanding of the brain from the metaphysical world to the physical, scientific realm. Previously, people did not know how behaviour and learning worked within the brain. Hebb used this theory to speculate that behaviour and learning was a neurological response.
An example of this is when an action is associated with pain. The reason why this occurs is because the neurons have created a link in your brain with that action's neural network and the pain neural network. So every time you think of this action , the neurons will jump to the pain network. This bond will continue to increase the more times this action is repeated. Word association is another example of how this works. For example, when you think of a fish, one of the words you will think of next is water because almost every time you see a fish, it will be in water because they need water to survive.
Hebb is also credited with designing and testing animals in intelligence tests.