Principles of Associationism

Basic principles of associationism are:1) Medler, David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998. 2) W. Bechtel and Abrahamsen, A. Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991. :

Mental elements or ideas become associated with one another through experience

Experience consists of such things as spatial and temporal contiguity and (dis)similarity of ideas

Complex ideas are composed and can be reduced to a set of simple ideas

Simple ideas are sensations

Simple additive rules are sufficient to predict complex ideas