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 to developing computer simulations of cognitive processes that attempts to capture the abstract information-processing capabilities of large groups of neurons. Information is represented as distributed patterns of activity...

In cognitive science, an approach that proposes to model human information processing in terms of a network of interconnected units operating in parallel. The units are typically classified as input units, hidden units, or output units. Each unit has a...

Thorndike regarded the mind as the sum total of the connections between perceptions and memories of situations. Learning was for him, the creation of a connection between a response and a stimulus. See E L Thorndike’s...

see parallel vs. serial...

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...