# Connectionism **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science / Neural Networks **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Connectionism** explains cognition or computation through networks of simple interacting units whose weighted connections produce learned or emergent behavior. ## Historical Context The connectionist research program continued internationally after the 1969 publication of _Perceptrons_. Work by [[wiki/Alexey Ivakhnenko|Alexey Ivakhnenko]], [[wiki/Shun-Ichi Amari|Shun-Ichi Amari]], [[wiki/Kaoru Nakano|Kaoru Nakano]] and [[wiki/Kunihiko Fukushima|Kunihiko Fukushima]] shows that contraction in one funding ecology was not global termination. ## See Also [[wiki/Artificial Neural Networks|Artificial Neural Networks]], [[wiki/Distributed Representation|Distributed Representation]], [[wiki/Deep Learning|Deep Learning]]