1. connectionist - Noun
2. connectionist - Adjective
connectionist (plural connectionists)
An advocate of connectionism.
connectionist (not comparable)
Of or relating to connectionism.
There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning. Marvin Minsky
Another major theme in Pinker's theories is that human cognition works, in part, by combinatorial symbol-manipulation, not just associations among sensory features, as in many connectionist models. Source: Internet
Critics argue that there are some phenomena which are better captured by symbolic models, and that connectionist models are often so complex as to have little explanatory power. Source: Internet
In 1989 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense (a textbook problem in language acquisition), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense. Source: Internet
In the first case, where features like a robot body or a connectionist architecture are required, Searle claims that strong AI (as he understands it) has been abandoned. Source: Internet
Other approaches gaining in popularity include the use of dynamical systems theory and also techniques putting symbolic models and connectionist models into correspondence (Neural-symbolic integration). Source: Internet