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- | Connectionism, today defined as an approach in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind which **models mental** or **behavioral phenomena** with **networks of simple units**(([[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Connectionism|wordiQ: Connectionism - Definition]])), is not a theory in frames of [[learning_paradigms:behaviorism]], but it **preceded** and **influenced behaviorist school**. Although it is today used in different contexts (mostly referring to neural networks and artificial neural networks that have not emerged until second half of the 20th century) it has origins dating as far back as Greek philosopher Aristotele, who claimed that memory is composed of simple elements connected in a variety of ways(([[http://books.google.hr/books?id=u6j6HTS-rVQC&pg=PA47&dq=J.+A.+Anderson,+A.+Pellionisz+and+Rosenfeld,+E.+Neurocomputing+2&hl=hr&ei=G6drTezgJMO58gPTv-nyBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|J. A. Anderson, A. Pellionisz and Rosenfeld, E. Neurocomputing 2. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.]])). | + | Connectionism, today defined as an approach in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind which models mental or behavioral phenomena with networks of simple units(([[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Connectionism|wordiQ: Connectionism - Definition]])), is not a theory in frames of [[learning_paradigms:behaviorism]], but it **preceded** and **influenced behaviorist school**. Although the origins of connectionism date back to Greek philosopher Aristotele, who claimed that memory is composed of simple elements connected in a variety of ways(([[http://books.google.hr/books?id=u6j6HTS-rVQC&pg=PA47&dq=J.+A.+Anderson,+A.+Pellionisz+and+Rosenfeld,+E.+Neurocomputing+2&hl=hr&ei=G6drTezgJMO58gPTv-nyBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|J. A. Anderson, A. Pellionisz and Rosenfeld, E. Neurocomputing 2. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.]])), in this article we refer to Thorndike's connectionism. |
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===== What is connectionism? ===== | ===== What is connectionism? ===== | ||