Revisiting Hebb: The Mechanisms of Repetition Learning
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Published online on January 30, 2026
Abstract
Perspectives on Psychological Science, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 229-250, May 2026.
In 1961, Donald Hebb established a classic paradigm for studying repetition learning: He asked participants to remember several memory sets for an immediate serial recall task and repeated one set multiple times throughout the experiment. Participants’ ...
In 1961, Donald Hebb established a classic paradigm for studying repetition learning: He asked participants to remember several memory sets for an immediate serial recall task and repeated one set multiple times throughout the experiment. Participants’ ...