Matthew Walker

You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.

English Scientist

Ferdinand de Saussure

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Swiss Educator

Edward Hirsch

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

American Poet

Dana Spiotta

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

American Author

Jonathan Pryce

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

Welsh Actor

Larry Wall

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Canadian Businessman

Associative relates to remembering connected ideas or experiences.

Memory Recall

In psychology, associative learning connects two stimuli or experiences together.

Psychology Term

Associative doesn't mean a physical connection but a mental or logical one.

Not Physical

'Associative' in math means changing the groupings doesn't affect the outcome.

Math Rule

The associative property doesn't apply to all mathematical operations.

Operation Specific

Associative property is vital when simplifying algebraic expressions.

Algebra Relevance

In computing, associative refers to data lookup by key, not by index.

Programming Context

Associative structures aren't ordered; they prioritize key-based access.

Not Sequence

 But where mind-wandering really gets interesting is when it crosses into the realm of free-moving associative thought that you aren’t consciously directing. This kind of mind-wandering is associated with increases in both ideas and positive emotions, and the evidence suggests that daydreaming can help people envision ways

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 was a very smart cat she's quickly figured out a way to get attention that delights the people around her cats learn by watching and that that's the reason we have the word copycat in our language I mean cats really do copy behavior and associative learning and

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 and go and do something different. And the reason is because your brain is an incredibly associative device. The brain has learned the association that the bed is this trigger of wakefulness, and we need to break that association.

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