 | David Caplan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 516 pages
...activity at a later date: "When the axon of a cell 'A' is near the site of a cell 'B' and repeatedly and persistently takes part in firing it, some growth...metabolic change takes place in one or both cells so that A's efficiency in firing the B cell is increased" (Hebb 1949: 62). Hebb's basic idea was that... | |
 | Gordon L. Shaw, G nther Palm - Science - 1988 - 836 pages
...lasting cellular changes that add to its stability. The assumption * can be precisely stated as follows: When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a...change takes place in one or both cells such that A.'s efficiency, as one of the cells fring B, is increased. The most obvious and I believe much the... | |
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When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased. 
