?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Scientific+Models%2C+Connectionist+Networks%2C+and+Cognitive+Science&rft.creator=Green%2C+Christopher+D.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=The+employment+of+a+particular+class+of+computer+programs+known+as+%22connectionist+networks%22+to+model+mental+processes+is+a+widespread+approach+to+research+in%0Acognitive+science+these+days.++Little+has+been+written%2C+however%2C+on+the+precise+connection+that+is+thought+to+hold+between+such+programs+and+actual+in+vivo+cognitive%0Aprocesses+such+that+the+former+can+be+said+to+%22model%22+the+latter+in+a+scientific+sense.++What+is+more%2C+this+relation+can+be+shown+to+be+problematic.++In+this+paper+I+give%0Aa+brief+overview+of+the+use+of+connectionist+models+in+cognitive+science%2C+and+then+explore+some+of+the+statements+connectionists+have+made+about+the+nature+of+the%0A%22modeling+relation%22+thought+to+hold+between+them+and+cognitive+processes.++Finally+I+show+that+these+accounts+are+inadequate+and+that+more+work+is+necessary+if%0Aconnectionist+networks+are+to+be+seriously+regarded+as+scientific+models+of+cognitive+processes&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2906%2F1%2Fmodels-TP2.htm&rft.identifier=++Green%2C+Christopher+D.++(2001)+Scientific+Models%2C+Connectionist+Networks%2C+and+Cognitive+Science.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2906%2F