The law of association by contiguity states that the sensation or idea of a particular object tends to evoke the idea of something that has often been encountered together with it.
Therefore it was necessary to standardise the likelihood that a pair of individuals engaged in a behavioural event to the number of times this pair was encountered together.
Since patients of the two study periods differed in their demographic characteristics, patients of both periods were encountered together.
In an attempt to apply a study population as homogenous as possible, only patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia and sepsis were enrolled in order to minimize confounding variables occurring when patients with different underlying infections offering a great variety of antigenic stimuli for the innate immune system were encountered together.
"We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together, combined in the most precise ways they can.
As endovascular procedures become even more common, the need for detailed understanding of such anatomy, together with the variations that may be encountered becomes more pressing.
But do these infants also form associations between items that have never been previously encountered together which, as discussed above, is often considered a key feature of a flexible memory system (Eichenbaum, 1997; Squire and Kandel, 1999)?
Comprehensiveness is not the most commonly used SCP concept (Table 1) and it is frequently encountered together with the other two CAR terms, adequacy and representativeness.
When on a particular day a specimen labelled 'juvenile' was collected but no female, we counted the juvenile record as 2 animals, because immature orangutans are invariably encountered together with a female [37].
