Drawing Inferences:

If a person is repeatedly exposed to the co-occurrence of a specific value of feature A and a specific value of feature B in the same object, he may infer that the two features are related. Consequently, when the person later observes a particular value of feature A and knows about this relationship, he can draw inferences about the likely value of feature B.

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Human cognition is organized around the detection of co-occurrence: what repeatedly appears together is treated as related. The mind does not passively register isolated facts but continuously scans experience for patterns of joint occurrence ...