connectionism
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connection + -ism
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connectionism (uncountable)
- (cognitive science) Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.
- 1992, Steven Davis, Connectionism: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:
- What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era.
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