The Organization of Behavior¶
Hebb, D. O. (1949). The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory. Wiley.
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Primes¶
- Hebbian Learning
- The slogan — neurons that fire together wire together — packages four substantive commitments.
This sourceStates Hebb's postulate — that repeated coactivation of two cells strengthens their connection — the local, correlational, unsupervised update rule later sloganized as 'cells that fire together wire together.'
- The slogan — neurons that fire together wire together — packages four substantive commitments.
- Learning
- A system can be flooded with experience and learn nothing if it has no modifiable state to receive the change, or no update mechanism to convert input into capability — the point Hebb (1949) makes in arguing that durable behavioral change requires a physiological substrate ("neurons that fire together wire together") capable of being modified by coincident activity.
This sourceIntroduces the Hebbian learning rule ("cells that fire together, wire together") as a synaptic update mechanism, grounding the requirement that learning needs a physically modifiable internal substrate; experience without such a substrate cannot produce durable capability change.
- A system can be flooded with experience and learn nothing if it has no modifiable state to receive the change, or no update mechanism to convert input into capability — the point Hebb (1949) makes in arguing that durable behavioral change requires a physiological substrate ("neurons that fire together wire together") capable of being modified by coincident activity.
- Pattern Completion (Filling the Incomplete)
This sourceIntroduces the Hebbian learning rule ("cells that fire together, wire together") as a synaptic update mechanism, grounding the requirement that learning needs a physically modifiable internal substrate; experience without such a substrate cannot produce durable capability change.
- Pruning
- The use- or fitness-signal is neural activity: synapses that are repeatedly co-active (carrying correlated, behaviorally relevant signals) are tagged for retention, while those that fire rarely or out of sync are marked as under-used — the developmental instantiation of "neurons that fire together wire together."
This sourceStates the activity-dependent learning rule (later paraphrased 'neurons that fire together wire together') that tags co-active synapses for retention.
- The use- or fitness-signal is neural activity: synapses that are repeatedly co-active (carrying correlated, behaviorally relevant signals) are tagged for retention, while those that fire rarely or out of sync are marked as under-used — the developmental instantiation of "neurons that fire together wire together."
Mechanisms¶
- Association Matrix Update Rule
- That is also its danger — the rule sees co-occurrence before it sees intention, so it will wire a protected attribute to a risk label as cheerfully as it wires a cue to a helpful response.
This sourceDescribes Hebbian learning as strengthening associations through repeated co-activation, without reference to intention.
- That is also its danger — the rule sees co-occurrence before it sees intention, so it will wire a protected attribute to a risk label as cheerfully as it wires a cue to a helpful response.
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