[R] The neuroconnectionist research programme

**arXiv**: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718)

**Nature**: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00705-w](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00705-w)

**Abstract**:

>Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call ‘neuroconnectionism’. ANNs have been not only lauded as the current best models of information processing in the brain but also criticized for failing to account for basic cognitive functions. In this Perspective article, we propose that arguing about the successes and failures of a restricted set of current ANNs is the wrong …

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