Bower, B. (1998), "Learning to make, keep adult neurons", Science News 155(11):170.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....of the stimulating type. We do not know what percentage, if any, are involved in learning. In fact, Hebb s hypothesis has still not been confirmed experimentally in the brains of vertebrates. However, it has been shown that learning results in the growth of new neurons in the hippocampus of rats (Bower 1998). The upper bound of 10 14 bits seems quite high in light of the connectionist model (Feldman and Ballard 1982) The model is based on the associationist model of thought, described by James (1890) In this model, the firing of a neuron or group of neurons (a unit) represents a momentary thought ....

Bower, B. (1998), "Learning to make, keep adult neurons", Science News 155(11):170.

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