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What problems do connectionist accounts have with respect to higher cognitive functions, such as lan
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What problems do connectionist accounts have with respect to higher cognitive functions, such as lan Connectionism is a theory that has dramatically grown in importance in recent years. It refers to the study of the design and functioning of 'neural nets'. Neural nets are computers in the sense that they accept an input of information, process it, and then provide an output. However they are not computers in the conventional manner. The computers that proliferate in modern society all work on the principle of serial processing. This means that they do one operation at a time, and whilst modern computers are able to do hundreds of thousands of calculations every second, this system still has some fundamental weaknesses. For example serial processing computers are dependent entirely upon what the programmer instructs the computer to do; they are not capable of effective learning without extremely complex software. Secondly serial processing computers are...
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