Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling examines different kinds of models and investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure of connectionist networks can be interpreted.

• Introduces connectionist models as tools that are both synthetic and representational and which can be used as the basis for conducting synthetic psychology.
  
• Includes distinctively varied account of modeling, historical overview of the...

Connectionism is a -hands on- introduction to connectionist modeling through practical exercises in different types of connectionist architectures.

• explores three different types of connectionist architectures - distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron
  
• provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this network, and a series of practical exercises that are designed to highlight the advantages, and disadvantages, of each
  
• accompanied by a website at...