connnectionism is a hands on introduction to connectionist modeling. three different types of connectionist architectures distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron are explored. in an accessible style, dawson 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 and to provide a road map to the field of cognitive modeling.this book is designed to be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside minds and machines: connectionism and psychological modeling (blackwell publishing, 2004). an accompanying website is available at www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/%7emike/book3/index.html and includes practice exercises and software, as well as the files and blank exercise sheets that are required for performing the exercises.