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The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
Psychology
Donald Hebb's landmark 1949 work introducing Hebbian learning, the principle that neurons that fire together wire together. It is foundational to neuroscience and a direct ancestor of artificial neural networks; Geoffrey Hinton credits it with setting him on his path.
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Hinton has repeatedly credited Hebb's 1949 book as the work that set him on his lifelong path toward neural networks, as recounted in his New Yorker profile.