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Association or polymodal areas refer to brain regions involved in the integration of sensory information from different sensory cortices and linking the sensory cortices to the motor cortices. These associative cortices support complex mental and behavioral functions.
Associationism refers to a philosophical doctrine maintaining that complex ideas are the sum of smaller, more elemental ideas joined together. It examines how events or ideas can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning. Moreover, Associationism is the philosophical belief that mental phenomena, such as learning, remembering, and imagining, can be explained in terms of the Laws of Association.
Associative Agnosia refers to a form of Visual Agnosia in which perceptual Processing is fairly normal, but there is an impairment in the ability to derive the meaning of objects. (See Visual agnosia).
The Associative chain theory refers to a theory favored by behaviorists that explains the formulation of a sentence as a chain of associations between the individual words in the sentence.