Connectionism today

Connectionist networks have been used to model a wide range of cognitive ph enomena, including developmental, neuropsychological and normal adult behav iours. They have offered radical alternatives to traditional accounts of we ll-established facts about cognition. The primary source of the success of these models is their sensitivity to statistical regularities in their trai ning environment. This paper provides a brief description of the connection ist toolbox and how this has developed over the past 2 decades, with partic ular reference to the problem of reading aloud.