Donald Olding Hebb was born July 22, 1904, in the small community of Chester Basin on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Both his parents were physicians; his two brothers followed in their footsteps, and his sister Catherine became a...

Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. He has...