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1932 E. L. Thorndike Fundamentals of Learning i. 4 We have studied..[a] case of apparent transcendent activity as part of a general study of systems which organize and direct trains of thought. The results,..justify the connectionist's faith.

1932 E. L. Thorndike Fundamentals of Learning xvii. 428 Many of the criticisms of connectionist psychology made by advocates of various forms of purposive psychology..consist in..the thesis that they can unite many names and the like, and that consequently connectionist psychology is unsound.

1941 Mind 50 415 The connectionist hypothesis is impossible because of Lashley's rats.

1964 W. F. Hill Learning p. ix I find the familiar division into connectionist and cognitive theories still the most useful.

1981 J. A. Feldman in G. E. Hinton & J. A. Anderson Parallel Models of Associative Memory 53 The major point of departure from conventional information-processing models is the explicit adoption of a connectionist framework as opposed to assuming that symbolic information is transmitted along some general channel.

1988 W. Bechtel Philos. Sci. iv. 62 Connectionists are developing models that give realistic performance on numerous cognitive tasks.

1995 G. V. Thomas in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. vii. 138 These theories have been called variously neural network models, parallel distributed processing (PDP) models or connectionist models.

2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate (Book Club ed.) v. 78 The connectionists, of course, do not believe in a blank slate, but they do believe in the closest mechanistic equivalent, a general-purpose learning device.