Connectionism "Connectionism" is an approach within cognitive science that employs neural networks, rather than computer programs, as the basis for modeling mentality. A connectionist system, or neural network, is a structure of simple...

The term connectionism has been used in a variety of senses in the history of psychology. Carl Wernicke’s (1874) model of language functioning, which emphasized connections between different areas of the brain, was dubbed connectionist, as was...

Paradigm of research in artificial intelligence that is oriented towards neurology. In contrast to the symbolic processing method of traditional artificial intelligence that uses sequential, globally directed processes, in connectionism processing...

. Any group of theories of the mind which model it on information processing systems known as ‘neural networks’, using the idea of ‘parallel processing’, whereby several different sets of interactions between nodes in a computer...

Connectionism is an approach in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology/cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Connectionism models mental or behavioral phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected networks...

MICHAEL R. W. DAWSON Connectionism: A Hands-On Approach Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 208 pages (ISBN 1-4051-3074-1, US$69.95 Hardcover) Reviewed by JOSEPH MACINNES This book is intended to be a practical introduction to connectionist models and neural networks. The book uses as examples,...

United Methodism and American Culture. Vol. 1, Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity. Edited by Russell E. Richey, Dennis M. Campbell, and William B. Lawrence. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997. viii + 364 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean...