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7.5. Association: Just Like That

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Classification helps up break things up into recognisable chunks, but we also benefit from stitching these chunks back together again, for example stringing words together into a sentence or remembering that flashing lights are often found on police vehicles. As we have discussed, our brains are a network of connections, not a set of pigeon-holes, and as such we have a powerful ability to think in highly connected ways.
 

Other parts in this section are:

• 7.5.1. Association: Neural Networks
• 7.5.2. Association: Just Like That
• 7.5.3. Association: Associated Emotions

The other sections in this chapter:

• 7.1. A Quick History of Brain Science
• 7.2. The Real Parts of the Brain
• 7.3. How We Think: Patterns of the Mind
• 7.4. Classification: Making Sense of the World
• 7.5. Association: Just Like That
• 7.6. Invention 'So What?'

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