At 12:00 PM -0500 11/11/99, Stephen Black wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> At 2:20 PM -0500 11/10/99, Stephen Black wrote:
>> >
>> >As for cell assemblies, I believe they were purely an abstract concept
>> >for Hebb, and he never made any attempt to locate them in the brain.
>> >
>> Was Hebb the one who coined the term "Conceptual Nervous System (CNS)"?
>> It's not indexed in his "Essay on Mind"; unfortunately I no longer have the
>> copy of his textbook that I used when I first took psychology in 1960.
>
>Yes. It's right there in the title of one his most famous essays:
>
>Hebb, D.O. (1955). Drives and the C.N.S. (Conceptual nervous
>  system). Psychological Review, 62, 243-254.

I thought it rang a bell (or maybe it was a metronome or a buzzer ;-)

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