On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 2:20 PM -0500 11/10/99, Stephen Black wrote:
> >
> >As for cell assemblies, I believe they were purely an abstract concept
> >for Hebb, and he never made any attempt to locate them in the brain.
> >
> Was Hebb the one who coined the term "Conceptual Nervous System (CNS)"?
> It's not indexed in his "Essay on Mind"; unfortunately I no longer have the
> copy of his textbook that I used when I first took psychology in 1960.
Yes. It's right there in the title of one his most famous essays:
Hebb, D.O. (1955). Drives and the C.N.S. (Conceptual nervous
system). Psychological Review, 62, 243-254.
-Stephen
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