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  • noun an advocate of connectionism
  • adjective of, or relating to connectionism

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  • Example two: behaviourist / connectionist overlap: Much contemporary work in cognitive science on the set of models known as connectionist or parallel distributed processing PDP models seems to share behaviorism's anti-nativism about learning.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Example two: behaviourist / connectionist overlap: Much contemporary work in cognitive science on the set of models known as connectionist or parallel distributed processing PDP models seems to share behaviorism's anti-nativism about learning.

    from never mind, to structured mind, to messy mind Bill Kerr 2008

  • Much contemporary work in cognitive science on the set of models known as connectionist or parallel distributed processing (PDP) models seems to share behaviorism's anti-nativism about learning.

    Behaviorism Graham, George 2007

  • His model is a connectionist model illustrating how neural trajectories and multidimensional, neuronal activation vectors drive reason.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • The popularity of a connectionist only approach has retarded research into intelligence.

    need to integrate different approaches to AI (Minsky) Bill Kerr 2008

  • The mind as a connectionist network, little nerve cells and clusters with reinforcing connections to other nerves, until associations build up.

    ere the cock crows thrice 2008

  • There is a problem with the conventional categories (such as cognitivism, instructionism / behaviourism, constructivism, connectionist / connectivism, neuroscience) because some (many?) learning theorists bridge more than one category

    from never mind, to structured mind, to messy mind Bill Kerr 2008

  • There is a problem with the conventional categories (such as cognitivism, instructionism / behaviourism, constructivism, connectionist / connectivism, neuroscience) because some (many?) learning theorists bridge more than one category

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Two different ways to represent an apple - a semantic network and a connectionist network

    need to integrate different approaches to AI (Minsky) Bill Kerr 2008

  • He contrasts two different ways to represent an apple, through a semantic symbolic network and a connectionist network

    Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008

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