I immediately associate this line with a memory from when I was around 10-years-old, and my father dragged me to a concert of one of his favorite performers -- the singing Rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach.
As the Iranian musician Arash Yazdani, one of several young composers featured in a concert presented by MATA, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, on July 8th, put it, "what I can immediately associate with religion, even to this day, is singing".
For example, processing of the sentence, "He watered the plants", would involve activation of the terms water and plant, and this activation would spread to concepts immediately associated with (i.e., directly linked to) those terms, and in turn to the neighbors of those concepts, and so on.
After over 20 years of living in the US first as a political refugee and now as a proud and law-obedient, tax-paying citizen, I allow myself this critical observation: apparently in America nudity is still such a novelty that it's immediately associated with sex, and sex -- with porn.
Cumbernauld, home to Clyde, is not somewhere immediately associated with sambas or a carnival atmosphere.
He possessed an innate ability to understand horses as well as those immediately associated with horses.
People immediately associated it with the gap between rich and poor".
One bureau analyst immediately associated the quote with Mr. Hanssen, who had used the phrase in conversations at the bureau.
Obedience, along with shyness, is not a trait immediately associated with artistic temperament.
