In explaining cognition, the connectionist approach emphasizes:
a) interactions between individual processing units in the brain.
b) the serial nature of cognitive processing.
c) that cognitive processes are localized within certain regions of the brain.
d) simple perceptual processing, rather than higher-level cognitive processing.
Answer: a
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