parallel distributed processing
psychological model
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artificial intelligence
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- In cognitive science: Approaches
approach, known as connectionism, or parallel-distributed processing, emerged in the 1980s. Theorists such as Geoffrey Hinton, David Rumelhart, and James McClelland argued that human thinking can be represented in structures called artificial neural networks, which are simplified models of the neurological structure of the brain. Each network consists of simple…
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human intelligence
- In human intelligence: Cognitive theories
Possible solutions have included “parallel distributed processing” models of the mind, as proposed by the psychologists David E. Rumelhart and Jay L. McClelland. These models postulated that many types of information processing occur within the brain at once, rather than just one at a time.
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