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Giant Brain Candy: Fire Together, Wire Together. Connections used together grow stronger. Hebb proposed it in 1949, and in 1973 researchers saw it happen: bursts of repeated signals strengthened links between neurons in rabbits for up to ten hours. Source: Hebbian learning and LTP.
Strong evidenceThe research
  1. Hebb, D. O. (1949). The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. Wiley.
  2. Bliss, T. V. P., & Lømo, T. (1973). Long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path. The Journal of Physiology, 232(2), 331–356.

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Fire Together, Wire Together

Connections used together grow stronger. Hebb proposed it in 1949, and in 1973 researchers saw it happen: bursts of repeated signals strengthened links between neurons in rabbits for up to ten hours.

Source: Hebbian learning and LTP · Strong evidence

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