Donald O. Hebb

Donald Olding Hebb, who lived from July 22, 1904 to August 20, 1985, was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. He is best known for his theory of Hebbian learning, which he introduced in his 1949 work The Organization of Behavior. He has been described as the father of neuropsychology and neural networks, and his views explained cognitive processes in terms of connections between neuron assemblies.