connectionism

Definition

Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.

Etymology

From connection + -ism.

Example Sentences

• "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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