===== Principles of Associationism =====

Basic principles of associationism are:(([[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86.7504&rep=rep1&type=pdf|Medler, David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998.]]))(([[http://books.google.hr/books?id=wFqlQgAACAAJ&dq=Connectionism+and+the+Mind:+An+Introduction+to+Parallel+Processing+in+Networks&hl=hr&ei=kKdrTdv3C5Sq8QPzs8W_BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA|W. Bechtel and Abrahamsen, A. Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991.]])): 

  * //Mental elements or ideas become associated with one another through experience//
  * //Experience consists of such things as spatial and temporal contiguity and (dis)similarity of ideas//
  * //Complex ideas are composed and can be reduced to a set of simple ideas//
  * //Simple ideas are sensations//
  * //Simple additive rules are sufficient to predict complex ideas//