On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, John Serafin wrote:
> 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
>
Hey, how about that? (or !). It's there all right, and he references
_The Behavior of Organisms_ (1938) as the place where he said it
first. I wonder if Hebb credited Skinner for the phrase--I always
thought (see above) that it originated with Hebb.
-Stephen
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