•One of the key building blocks for a connectionist system is
a method for storing associations between and input and output
pattern
•Let us begin by considering a couple of simple methods by
which this sort of association could be achieved
•We will focus on bringing the law of contiguity to life:
•“When two elementary brain-processes have been
active together or in immediate succession, one of them, on reoccurring,
tends to propagate its excitement into the other” (James, 1890)