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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theory that thought, behavior, and especially learning can be explained and modeled by neural networks.
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- noun any of several
fields ofpsychology thatmodel brain processes in terms ofinterconnected networks
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Examples
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A lot of the research into the mind these days focuses on connectionism and neuroscience.
Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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Bayesian formalisms were not well-known, but were well-known enough for those interested to come across them, and they offered a good alternative to connectionism.
New ideas josh 2008
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Bayesian formalisms were not well-known, but were well-known enough for those interested to come across them, and they offered a good alternative to connectionism.
Archive 2008-06-01 josh 2008
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A lot of the research into the mind these days focuses on connectionism and neuroscience.
study marvin minsky's work Bill Kerr 2008
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In terms of computational modeling, early in the decade it was clear that connectionism had run out of speed.
New ideas josh 2008
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In terms of computational modeling, early in the decade it was clear that connectionism had run out of speed.
Archive 2008-06-01 josh 2008
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There is a major debate within the philosophy of mind between proponents of classical cognitive architecture and proponents of connectionism.
Compositionality Szabó, Zoltán Gendler 2007
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The debate about connectionism is more closely related to the question whether reverse compositionality holds (cf. section 1.5.4.) 1.2 Meaning
Compositionality Szabó, Zoltán Gendler 2007
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The associationism also has clear affinities for, and indeed is in many ways the genetic antecedent of, connectionism in recent neuropsychology and cognitive science.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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That's because a good amount of the philosophical background to my work is rooted in connectionism, and yes, people like Minsky and Papert.
web2.0 spray: Stager versus Downes Bill Kerr 2007
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