Donald Hebb; Organization of Behavior (1949)
Book	Page		Topic
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	1		This book presents a theory of behavior  that is based as far as possible on the physiology of the nervous system, and makes a sedulous attempt to find some community of neurological and psychological conceptions.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	59		The present argument is based at least as much on Gestalt as on learning theory.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	60		4. First Stage of Perception -- Growth of the Assembly
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	60		Assumption: -- A growth process accompanying synaptic activity makes the synapse more readily traversed.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	60		Let us assume that the persistence or repetition of a reverberatory activity (or "trace") tends to induce lasting cellular changes that add to its stability.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	62		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.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	62		The most obvious and I believe much the most probable suggestion concerning the way in which one cell could become more capable of firing another is that synaptic knobs develop and increase the area of contact between the afferent axon and efferent soma.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	63		When one cell repeatedly assists in firing another, the axon of the first cell develops synaptic knobs (or enlarges them if they already exists) in contact with the soma of the second cell.  This seems to me the most likely mechanism of a lasting effect of reverberatory action.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	64		Relationships between synaptic knobs and the cell body.  (Diagram)
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	66		It is feasible to assume that synaptic knobs develop with neural activity and represent lower synaptic resistance.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	68		Illustrating convergence of cells in Brodmann's area 17 upon cells in area 18. (diagram)
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	69		Mode of perceptual integration -- the cell assembly
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	69		Perception must depend on other structures besides area 17.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	69		At the level of area 18 and beyond, all topographical organization in the visual process has disappeared.
Hebb; Organization of Behavior	70		Any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become "associated," so that activity in one facilitates activity in the other.
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