Definitions for "Connectionism"
A class library written in Objective-C++ for building models of connectionist networks . The class-hierarchy is designed to be maximally general and expandable, but also to support specific types of network.
In cognitive psychology, the major formal language for the description of sub-symbolic learning.
An approach to studying intelligence based on storing problem-solving knowledge as a pattern of connections among a very large number of simple processing units operating in parallel. Connectionism is often contrasted with the manipulation of the large symbolic structures traditionally used to represent knowledge in artificial intelligence. It was inspired by the structure of synapses (connections) and neurons (processing units) in the human brain.