Even before Hebb, Cajal or Tanzi had suggested the same idea in the 1800s . Hebb only wrote down a vague hypothesis, but what matters is he did it much earlier

Even before Hebb, Cajal or Tanzi had suggested the same idea in the 1800s . Hebb only wrote down a vague hypothesis, but what matters is he did it much earlier than Lomo thus the disproportionate credit he receives. References are clearly not a correct mechanism of credit attribution but a very vague one, because that is not even their goal, they are mostly used for explanatory reasons. That said, while Lomo &Bliss may not get a lot of love from machine learning experts who have a superficial knowledge of they field, they do get a lot of attribution where it matters, in neurosciences