A theory of attention: Variations in the associability of stimuli with reinforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

To paraphrase Brown, such music fails the triple tests of accuracy, associability, and appropriateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

This last kind of fever recurs less frequently than the other, as it is a disease only of those of the temperament of associability, as mentioned in Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

If after this hot fit of fever all the parts, which had acquired too great irritability, or associability, regain their natural degree of it; the disease is removed, and health restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

If the exhaustion of sensorial power during the hot fit of fever only reduces the quantity of irritability and associability to its natural standard, the fever is cured, not being liable to return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarily, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above irritation, sensation, volition, association.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above irritation, sensation, volition, association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note II] Reference

These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above, irritation, sensation, volition, association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

In which latter situation the accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation increases by its superabundance the associability of the fibres of the stomach, so as to overbalance the defect of the excitement of their association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

From whence it appears that the propensity to action, whether it be called irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, or associability, is only another mode of expression for the quantity of sensorial power residing in the organ to be excited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Because the associability of the capillaries is so much increased by the accumulation of this power, owing to the lessened activity of the heart and arteries, as to over-balance the lessened excitement of it by the weaker movements of the heart and arteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Hence the exertion of the voluntary power in its natural degree diminishes the increased sensibility, and irritability, and probably the increased associability, which occurs during sleep; and thus reduces the frequency of the pulse in the feverish sleep after a full meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

This accumulation nevertheless is not so great as to renew their own activity under this defect of stimulus, but yet is in sufficient abundance to increase the associability of the next link of catenation, that is, to actuate the capillaries of the skin with great and perpetual increase of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The continued fevers with strong pulse terminate by the reduction or exhaustion of the sensorial power by violent action of the whole system; which is followed either by return of health with the natural quantity of irritability, and of associability, or by a total destruction of them both, and consequent death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The heart and arteries acquire a greater strength of pulsation, and continue the frequency of it, owing to the accumulation of the sensorial power of association during their previous torpor, and their consequent greater associability; which is now also more strongly excited by the increased actions of the capillaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Where this fever is continued, though with some remissions and exacerbations, the excessive action is at length so much lessened by expenditure of sensorial power, as to gradually terminate in health; or it becomes totally exhausted, and death succeeds the destruction of the irritability and associability of the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

This sensorial power of association therefore becomes accumulated, and by its superabundance contributes to actuate the link next in association, which has thus acquired so great a degree of associability, as to overbalance the less quantity of the excitement of it by the torpid action of the previous or first associate link.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

And then the stomach is thrown into stronger action, both by the greater excitement of its natural quantity of the sensorial power of association by the increased actions of the capillaries, and also by some increase of associability, as it had been previously a long time in a state of torpor, or less activity than natural, as evinced by its perpetual sickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

In that case the link in catenation, that is, the first of the associate train, is rendered torpid by defect of excitement of its usual quantity of the sensorial power of association, and from there being no accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation to increase its associability, and thus to contribute to actuate it by overbalancing the defect of the excitement of its association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The superabundance of the unemployed sensorial power of the first link is derived to the second; the associability of which thus becomes so greatly increased, that it acts more violently than natural, though the excitement of its power of association by the lessened action of the first link is less than natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The heart and arteries remain also in a state of torpor, because there continues to be no excitement of their power of association owing to the torpid motions of the stomach; but hence it happens, that there exists at this time a great accumulation of the power of association in the less active fibres of the heart and arteries; which, as it is not excited and expended by them, increases the associability of the next link of the associated chain of motions, which consists of the capillaries or other glands; and that in so great a degree as to actuate them with unnatural energy, and thus to produce a perpetual hot fit of fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

When the accumulation of the sensorial power of association, which is caused as above explained by deficient excitement owing to the lessened quantity of action of the irritative fibrous motions, with which the associate train is catenated, is not in quantity sufficient to renew the natural actions of the first link of an associate train of motions; it is nevertheless frequently so abundant as to actuate the next link of the associated train with unnatural energy by increasing its associability; and that in a still greater degree if that second link of the associated train was previously in a torpid state, that is, had previously acquired some accumulation of the sensorial power of association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

If all the parts, which were affected with torpor, regain their irritability, and associability, the cold paroxysm of fever ceases; but as some of the parts affected were previously accustomed to incessant action, as the heart and arteries, and others only to intermitted action, as the stomach and intestines; and as those, which are subjected during health to perpetual action, accumulate sensorial power faster, when their motions are impeded, than those which are subjected to intermitted action; it happens, that some of the parts, which were affected with torpor during the cold fit, recover their irritability or associability sooner than others, and more perfectly, or acquire a greater quantity of them than natural; as appears by the partial heat and flushings previous to the general hot fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference