A theory of the mind with many versions.
They have in common that they set up models which employ simple interactions between the nodes in a computer network in such a way that sets of these interactions occur at the same time (or ‘in parallel’, hence ‘parallel processing’).
This uses the information processing in the brain or nervous system as a model, and dispenses with separate elements in the system to carry the separate pieces of information; for example, sentences in a code which represent memories, thoughts, and so on. (Also see: trace theory of money, language of thought.)
It is disputed whether this whole approach represents a fundamentally new way of looking at thought, or whether it simply gives a microlevel analysis of an older or classical view such as that used in cognitive psychology.
Source:
W Bechtel and A Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Mind (1991)
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
- 2.2 Connectionism: A Hands-on Approach
- 2.3 Connectionism and Second Language Acquisition (Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series)
- 2.4 Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
- 2.5 Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures
- 2.6 Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
- 2.7 Analogy-Making as Perception (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
- 2.8 Music and Connectionism (MIT Press)
- 2.9 Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks
- 2.10 Connectionism in Context (Human-centred Systems)
- trace theory of memory
- Peter Frederick Strawson
- interactionism
- private language argument
- truth conditional semantics
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The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
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Connectionism: A Hands-on Approach
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Connectionism and Second Language Acquisition (Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series)
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- 166 Pages - 08/02/2018 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
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- 416 Pages - 06/17/2009 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures
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- 256 Pages - 10/25/2001 (Publication Date) - Springer (Publisher)
Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
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Analogy-Making as Perception (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
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Music and Connectionism (MIT Press)
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Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks
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Connectionism in Context (Human-centred Systems)
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- English (Publication Language)
- 192 Pages - 03/25/1992 (Publication Date) - Springer (Publisher)
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