The phrase "activate associations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, marketing, or cognitive processes where one is encouraged to trigger or stimulate connections between ideas or concepts.
Example: "To enhance creativity, it's important to activate associations between seemingly unrelated concepts."
Alternatives: "stimulate connections" or "trigger associations".
The word "Trump" activates associations to racism in their minds.
Planning health sector reforms or identifying health policy in areas normally outside its purview, such as poverty or economic development, are likely to demand such knowledge, as they provide new disciplinary or social perspectives on a given problem and activate new associations and meanings for policy issues [ 84].
However, in addition to activating semantic associations these tasks also involve executive functions that are not specific to semantics.
Rather, right- and left-handers also used their hands in contrasting ways when expressing ideas with positive and negative emotional valence, suggesting that they automatically activated contrasting associations between action and emotion.
Upon TCR ligation, β-catenin translocates into the nucleus to activate, in association with long TCF-1 isoforms, expression of the early GATA3 transcript GATA3 1b.
MutH binds to hemi-methylated GATC sites but its latent endonuclease activity can only be activated through association with the MutL-MutS complex.
In the LP, MBL acts as the carbohydrate recognition molecule and activates complement association with the MBL-associated serine protease 2 (MASP-2), C1r/C1s-like serine proteases, which in turn catalyze C3 cleavage to C3b, which binds to C4b2a to form C4b2a3b complex (C5 convertase).
Upon growth factor activation, Sprouty translocates to the plasma membrane, notably ruffles, where it becomes activated in association with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and the caveolin-1 (Cav-1) [ 6, 98– 100].
The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is activated by association with punishment or termination of reward, while the BAS is activated in response to reward or the termination of punishment (Franken et al. 2006).
Furthermore, as being indicated by in-situ small-angle X-ray experiments, regular lamellar stacking gradually developed within stretched blends through heating, which indicates the involvement of thermally activated self-association of randomly distributed crystalline lamellae.
