on 11/11/99 12:00 PM, Stephen Black at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
>> 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.
But the phrase appears earlier than that 1955 paper, so either Hebb coined
it earlier, or someone else coined it earlier. I had actually thought that
Skinner had first used the term in his 1950 paper, "Are theories of learning
necessary?" Skinner certainly used the phrase in that earlier paper.
http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~horan/ced522readings/skinner/necessary/Theories.html
John
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