Publications on Connectionism

Abrahamsen, A., & Bechtel, W. (2006). Phenomena and mechanisms: Putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective. In R. Stainton (Ed.), Contemporary debates in cognitive science. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Bechtel, W., & Abrahamsen, A. A. 2002). Connectionism and the mind: Parallel processing, dynamics, and evolution in networks (Second Edition). Oxford: Blackwell.

Abrahamsen, A. (1994). Cognizers' innards and connectionist nets: A holy alliance? (Commentary on Clark and Karmiloff-Smith, The cognizer's innards.) Mind and Language, 8, 520-530.

Bechtel, W. & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1993). Connectionism and the future of folk psychology. In R. G. Burton (Ed.), Natural and Artificial Minds (pp. 69-100). Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Reprinted in S. M. Christensen and D. R. Turner (Eds.), Folk psychology and the Philosophy of Mind (pp. 340-367). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1993.

Bechtel, W., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1991). Connectionism and the mind: An introduction to parallel processing in networks. Oxford: Blackwell.

Abrahamsen, A. A., & Bechtel, W. (1991, June). Connectionist models and mental retardation research. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Miami, FL.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1989, April). Implications of connectionism for developmental psychology. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO.