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'''Hebbian learning''' is the oldest biologically-inspired learning rule in neuroscience: neurons that fire together, wire together. First proposed by Donald Hebb in 1949, it states that the strength of a synaptic connection increases when pre- and post-synaptic neurons are active simultaneously. The rule requires no external reward signal or global error gradient; learning is purely local and [[Self-Organization|self-organizing]], driven by correlation in neural activity.

Hebbian plasticity is the mechanism underlying [[Synaptic Plasticity|synaptic plasticity]] and the foundation of unsupervised learning in [[Artificial Neural Networks|artificial neural networks]]. Its limitation is clear: pure correlation learning cannot distinguish causal from coincident activation, and uncorrelated inputs decay to zero strength. The [[BCM theory]] of synaptic modification was developed precisely to address this limitation by introducing sliding thresholds for long-term potentiation and depression.

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