 | D. J. Amit, Daniel J. Amit - Computers - 1989 - 528 pages
...reverberatory activity (or "trace") tends to induce lasting cellular changes that add to its stability.... When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a...repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some groiuth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A 's efficiency, as... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - Psychology - 1990 - 366 pages
...growth process accompanying synaptic activity makes the synapse more readily traversed. As he states it, "When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a...efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased" (p. 62). So, according to Hebb, any two cells or systems of cells that repeatedly are active at the... | |
 | James L. McGaugh, Norman M. Weinberger, Gary Lynch - Psychology - 1992 - 428 pages
...wellknown rule concerning the conditions under which alterations of synaptic efficacy might occur: "When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a...efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased" (p. 62). Hebb's (1949) monograph is usually taken as the starting point for the modern assumption,... | |
| |
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. 
