Connectionism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks. uncountable
"What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era."
Example
More examples"What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era."
Etymology
From connection + -ism.
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