I'm ashamed to admit it; I shoulda know! ;-)
BFS uses the term in The Behavior of Organisms (1938, p421) and certainly
sounds like he's coining it.
At 3:13 PM -0500 11/11/99, 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
>
>John
>
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