Main Entry: par·al·lel·ism

Pronunciation: \ˈpar-ə-ˌlel-ˌiz-əm, -ləl-\

Function: noun

: a philosophical or psychological doctrine that there is a one-to-one correspondence between events in the mind and events in the brain but that the two sets of events exist without interacting in a causal way—called also psychophysical parallelism