Claim · 1958 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Rosenblatt's 1958 Psychological Review paper says its theory takes the empiricist, or "connectionist", position and was developed for a hypothetical nervous system or machine called a perceptron.

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The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brainuses the name ↓

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Date: 1958 · publication Records dated 1958 →

Scope and limitsThe text's "connectionist" names a theoretical position on how information is stored and recognised; the record does not show that the later family name derives from this use.

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The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain

Psychological Review (American Psychological Association); course copy hosted at ling.upenn.edu · 1958

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“The theory to be presented here takes the empiricist, or "connectionist" … The theory has been developed for a hypothetical nervous system, or machine, called a perceptron.”

Location in source PDF p. 2 (printed pp. 386-387)

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Authors: F. Rosenblatt
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 f32fdf8c0657cda33ace13487856dd4facd34c3eeb6a6d3011107339928fbd57). Scan of the journal pages with an OCR text layer (the year prints as "19S8" in the text layer); course copy, University of Pennsylvania.
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Language: English (en)
Attribution: F. Rosenblatt, “The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain”, 1958.
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