The phrase "associative mind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a way of thinking that connects ideas and concepts in a non-linear or intuitive manner.
Example: "Her associative mind allows her to make connections between seemingly unrelated topics, leading to innovative solutions."
Alternatives: "creative thinking" or "intuitive mind".
It's an amazing thing, her sort of free-associative mind, her ability to find humour in anything – she's like a divining rod for wordplay.
Some adherents of CTM do deny that the brain runs an associative network (see, e.g., Gallistel and King 2009, who appear to deny that there is any scientific level of explanation that association is intimately involved in), but they do so on separate empirical grounds and not because of any logical inconsistency with an associative brain implementing a classical mind.
Almost anything that invokes pleasurable impressions can be the cause of pride, within the limitations that the idea of the subject must allow us to build associative connections directing the mind to the idea of self.
The pure associationist who wants to posit the smallest number of domain-general mental processes will theorize that the mind consists of associative structures acquired by associative learning which enter into associative transitions and are implemented in an associative instantiation base.
According to Mechoulam, increased memory extinction could be helpful for sufferers of PTSD, reducing the mind's associative link between external stimuli and traumatic events.
The poet's distinctive style consists of the sort of raw ellipticism that children, so better attuned than their elders to the associative rangings of the mind, produce naturally and in great volume.
Using this procedure, one can generate an associative mapping of a thinker's mind.
For most of us, this is poppycock, but Doom and Madlib succeed in translating the heightened physical sensitivity and associative facility of the stoned mind into concrete sound.
They enable you to read dispositionally rather than methodically; that is, you build as you read a sense of the habits of mind underlying the associative trails, the jolts and starts, of each essay's progress.
If we know that a mind has an associative bond between green and toucan, then we know that activating one of those concepts leads to the activation of the other.
