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Cognitive science approach
Connectionism is an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or artificial neural networks. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ConnectionismA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Novel Internet of Things Web Attack Detection Architecture Based on the Combination of Symbolism and Connectionism AIInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Philosophical PerspectivesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysisCited 2,257 times
- Go sideways: Paul SmolenskyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Computational theory of mindA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis
On the proper treatment of connectionism
On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition
Connectionism and the problem of systematicity: Why Smolensky's solution doesn't work
New concepts in surgery of WHO grade II gliomas: functional brain mapping, connectionism and plasticity – a review
What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?
Emergentism, Connectionism and Language Learning
Rethinking Eliminative Connectionism
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Novel Internet of Things Web Attack Detection Architecture Based on the Combination of Symbolism and Connectionism AI
Comparison of the symptom networks of long‐COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome: From modularity to connectionism
Connectionism about human agency: responsible AI and the social lifeworld
A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism.
Problems of Connectionism
📚 Books worth reading
Philosophical PerspectivesJames E. Tomberlin · 1987
GhostwrittenDavid Mitchell · 1999
Back propagationDavid E. Rumelhart · 1995- 📕Development of Mental RepresentationKathleen Tyner, Irving E. Sigel · 1999
ConnectionismMichael R W Dawson · 2005
The Algebraic MindGary F. Marcus · 2001- 📕Connectionist Models of Memory and Language (PLE: Memory)Joseph P. Levy, Dimitrios Bairaktaris · 2014
Connectionism and psychologyPhilip T. Quinlan · 1991
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