On the Relationship Between Connectionism and Cognitive Science

The so-called ‘new connectionism’ is perceived by many in cogmtlve science as something radically new, and by others as a re-hashing of old and discredited ideas. In this article I hope to show that it is neither of these. Although superficially different from conventional informationprocessing approaches to cognitive modelling, connectionism represents the logical extension of many of the theoretical ideas that were circulating in cognitive science in the late seventies Furthermore connectionism differs significantly. both in substance and philosophy from behaviorism.

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