{"id":8117,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hebbian_learning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:13","slug":"hebbian_learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hebbian_learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebbian learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A method of weight adaptation in connectionist models that is biologically plausible. &nbsp;Weights between two units get strengthened if both units are active at the same time (&#8220;what fires together wires together&#8221;). &nbsp;Several variations of Hebbian learning exist (e.g., involving weight decay and temporal aspects of unit activation).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cell_assemblies\">Cell assemblies<\/a>, <a href=\"computational_models\">Computational models<\/a>, <a href=\"connectionist_models\">Connectionist models<\/a>, Hebbian synapse <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A method of weight adaptation in connectionist models that is biologically plausible. &nbsp;Weights between two units get strengthened if both units are active at the same time (&#8220;what fires together wires together&#8221;). &nbsp;Several variations of Hebbian learning exist (e.g., involving weight decay and temporal aspects of unit activation).&nbsp; See Cell assemblies, Computational models, Connectionist models, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hebbian_learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hebbian learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}