摘要：This research aims to analyze of the ways cognitive psychology attempts to understand how knowledge about the world is represented, and how cognitive processes work to achieve that representation. After differentiating between symbolic processing (serial processing of information), and non-symbolic processing and subsymbolic (parallel distributed processing), this paper focus on the latter from conexionism, describing the units and prosecution processes. The following describes learning in the conexionism model to tackle its implications in school education and mainly, in higher education, by establishing a hypothetical model which highlights the importance of parallel processing when stimulating learning. Finally, it compares serial and parallel processing models, and sums up with the importance of the hybrid processing models nowadays.
