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Revista Psicologia e Saúde

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PANASSIOL, Ricardo Tiosso. An early PDP connectionist model for describing the behavioral phenomenon. Rev. Psicol. Saúde [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.171-183. ISSN 2177-093X.  https://doi.org/10.20435/pssa.v11i2.867.

The focus of modern neuroscience on cognitive processes has relegated to behavior the epiphenomenal status of neural processing and the difficulties generated by this interpretation have encouraged the use of computational models. However, the implementation based on inferred cognitive constructs has been inefficient. The objective of this work was to review the concept of behavior by a selectionist approach and propose a connectionist computational model that operates integrally with its neurophysiological bases. The behavioral phenomenon was functionally defined and described at different levels of analysis. Functional levels make it possible to understand why behavioral phenomena exist, while topographic levels describe how morphophysiological mechanisms implement the response. The connectionist notions of PDP ANNs formalizes the proposal. The model stands out for contextualizing neural processing as part of the response, addressing the behavioral phenomenon as a whole that needs to be explained in its most different levels of analysis.

Keywords : Neuroscience; behavioral sciences; behavior; connectionism; artificial neural networks.

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