connectionists

I also understood that cognitivism had been challenged by connectionists, neuroscientists, behavioural AI researchers (Rodney Brooks), some philosophers (the Churchlands) and some educational theorists (George Siemens, Stephen Downes) who reject the basic premise, ie. they argue that the mind is NOT like a computer

Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008

(Another way of putting this is to say that for classicists mental representations are computationally atomic, whereas for connectionists they are not.)

Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

Also the idea of mental representation cognitive stuctures is attacked by the connectionists who think it can all be done with patterns - Downes also argues this

Archive 2008-08-01 Bill Kerr 2008

Also the idea of mental representation cognitive stuctures is attacked by the connectionists who think it can all be done with patterns - Downes also argues this

towards a fingernail definition of constructionism Bill Kerr 2008

Moreover, connectionists argue that information processing as it occurs in connectionist networks more closely resembles some features of actual human cognitive functioning.

Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

I also understood that cognitivism had been challenged by connectionists, neuroscientists, behavioural AI researchers (Rodney Brooks), some philosophers (the Churchlands) and some educational theorists (George Siemens, Stephen Downes) who reject the basic premise, ie. they argue that the mind is NOT like a computer

cognitivism or cognitive science (part one) Bill Kerr 2008

Although classical systems are capable of multiple constraint satisfaction, connectionists argue that neural network models provide much more natural mechanisms for dealing with such problems.

Connectionism Garson, James 2007

But such tasks as language and reasoning cannot be accomplished by associative methods alone and so connectionists are unlikely to match the performance of classical models at explaining these higher-level cognitive abilities.

Connectionism Garson, James 2007

However many connectionists do not view their work as a challenge to classicism and some overtly support the classical picture.

Connectionism Garson, James 2007

So-called implementational connectionists seek an accommodation between the two paradigms.

Connectionism Garson, James 2007