Hebb Award winner 2010 / Gagnant du Prix Hebb 2010: When Learning Met Memory.
The first sentence of the introduction to Hebb's (1949) classic monograph, The Organization of Behavior, is “It might be argued that the task of the psychologist, the task of understanding behaviour and reducing the vagaries of human thought to a mechanical process of cause and effect, is a more dif...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 227 - 241 |
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| Format: | Autobiography |
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Canadian Psychological Association
December 2010
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