on 11/13/99 2:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, I have it on good source that Hebb's work intertwined with both of the
> Milners from the 1950's to the time of his death.
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Hi Sandra et al.,
Thanks for confirming the connection between Hebb and the Milners (and I had
forgotten that Kimura was also linked to them). As I teach the history of
psych course, I'm trying to fill in some admittedly large gaps concerning
Canadian psychologists. According to the Great Canadian Scientists page
(http://www.science.ca/scientists/), it looks like Hebb came to the U.S. for
his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1936. (Was that under Lashley?) I see that Hebb also
worked with Penfield. Impressive lineage.
Now, one last question (and I don't intend this to start a border skirmish):
Why do most history of psych textbooks have nary a mention of Hebb? In
addition to cell assemblies and the Hebbian synapse, it seems like Hebb
might also be given more credit than he typically receives for stimulating
the cognitive psych movement (e.g., his 1960 paper in American Psychologist,
"The second American Revolution").
John
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Saint Vincent College
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