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    Connectionism is an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or...
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  • approaches based in other disciplines, such as the psychological approach of connectionism. The 1990s were characterized by two major areas of research focus:...
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  • propositional attitude, and it challenges eliminative materialism and connectionism. It implies a strongly rationalist model of cognition in which many...
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    computer program. The late 80s and 90s saw the rise of neural networks and connectionism as a research paradigm. Under this point of view, often attributed to...
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    networks. He argued that understanding the mind would require integrating connectionism with classical ideas about symbol-manipulation. Marcus's book, Guitar...
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  • with the semantic content of cognitive science is connectionism or neural network modeling. Connectionism relies on the idea that the brain consists of simple...
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    comparative psychology and the learning process led to his "theory of connectionism" and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psychology...
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    the 1990s cognitive science, oriented towards a system theoretical connectionism, has increasingly adopted the methods from (nonlinear) “Dynamic Systems...
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  • precise logic. But the most important development was the revival of "connectionism", including neural network research, by Geoffrey Hinton and others....
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    "past tense debate" during the 1980s revival of neural networks. The connectionism side debated the symbolic side, represented by Jerry Fodor, Gary Marcus...
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