connectionism
con·nec·tion·ism
noun \-shə-ˌni-zəm\Definition of CONNECTIONISM
: a school of cognitive science that holds that human mental processes (as learning) can be explained by the computational modeling of neural nets which are thought to simulate the actions of interconnected neurons in the brain
— con·nec·tion·ist \-sh(ə-)nist\ noun
First Known Use of CONNECTIONISM
1987
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