connectionism

English

Etymology

connection +‎ -ism

Noun

connectionism (uncountable)

  1. (cognitive science) Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.
    • 1992, Steven Davis, Connectionism: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:
      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.

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