On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:43:08 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote: >Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"?
No. Connectionism follows in the tradition of the theory of mental associations and associative learning. >I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response >connections" >but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking more of Estes and Guthrie >learning theories? First, see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1284756/pdf/jeabehav007200300451.pdf The way I was taught stimulus sampling theory, Estes and Guthrie have nothing to do with connectionism. Second, see Wally Schneider's paper whether the re-emerging field of neural networks (first popularized in the 1950s with perceptron but faded because of mathematical problems but reinvigorated with the solution of these mathematical problems) aka connectionism represented a paradigm shift in cognitive psychology's conception of how the mind performs computations (i.e., rule and symbol architectures versus connectionist architectures): http://www.springerlink.com/content/5x6j2j3765566640/ Third, for a more comprehensive view of cognitive architectures and the role that connectionist architecture play, see Bechtel and Abrahamson's book "Connectionism and the Mind"; available on books.google.com -- see: http://books.google.com/books?id=QYlJzBjl4-kC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=schneider+paradigm+connectionism&source=bl&ots=cXyewtzuOs&sig=kd_YeHwAutX8GBoErL0KrDzW2F0&hl=en&ei=4o7aTpPAK6Pj0QHKqOCHDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=schneider%20paradigm%20connectionism&f=false -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14605 or send a blank email to leave-14605-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
