The phrase "temporal contiguity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to psychology, learning theories, or any context where the timing of events is relevant.
Example: "The principle of temporal contiguity suggests that events occurring close together in time are more likely to be associated in memory."
Alternatives: "time proximity" or "chronological closeness."
Conditioning is certainly a matter of associating temporally related events, but temporal contiguity is only one of several factors and probably not the most important that influences conditioning.
Temporal contiguity, therefore, is not necessarily the most important factor in successful conditioning.
In other words, it is the correlation between two events, just as much as their temporal contiguity, that establishes an association between them.
This article reviews research on the spatial contiguity and temporal contiguity effects.
He suggests seven principles for use of multimedia elements in instructional materials: multimedia, coherence, spatial contiguity, temporal contiguity, modality, redundancy, and individual differences.
(In his explanation of the rule, Hume presupposes the spatial and temporal contiguity requirement of cause and effect, but it is not an essential feature of the rule).
If R is the relation of spatio-temporal contiguity, then the ideas are joined to form a judgment of regularity, a causal judgment.
In this article, we discuss the results of an experiment in which we studied two apparently conflicting classes of design principles for instructional hypervideos: (1) those principles derived from work on multimedia learning that emphasize spatio-temporal contiguity and (2) those originating from work on hypermedia learning that favour user-friendly interfaces.
It was suggested that such conditions as temporal and spatial contiguity, repetition, similarity, and vividness favoured the formation of associations, and each was called a law of association.
Each of these ideas can be challenged and, in fact, temporal priority and contiguity are in tension with one another (Mumford and Anjum 2013).
The meaningful physical spatial-temporal (physical time) contiguity of semantic- pragmatic linkages will be able to form information fusion in the message delivery only if the fusion of intentions between the actor and reactor take place effectively in the communication.
