Before revision: A 'second wave' connectionist (ANN) model with a hidden layer Connectionism (coined by Edward Thorndike in the 1930s ) 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 (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.