Before revision: A 'second wave' connectionist (ANN) model with a hidden layer Connectionism (coined by Edward Thorndike in the 1931Edward Thorndike (1931) Human Learning, page 122) is the name of an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or artificial neural networks.
After revision: A 'second wave' connectionist (ANN) model with a hidden layer Connectionism is the name of an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or artificial neural networks.