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