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adj. - Characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.

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  • associative learning
  • Sometimes they centered themselves in the present moment, which is called associative thinking.
  • In the rat cortex, long-term associative memories vanished rapidly after local application of an inhibitor of the protein kinase C isoform, protein kinase M zeta PKMzeta.
  • That reaction, called associative detachment, allowed clouds in the universe to cool, condense and form the first stars.
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