[binding by (human) binding]
	contrast		covariation		associations		emotion		memory
	This is an OVERVIEW of five columns to carry the model, or, 'Body Theory of Association'. To go deeper choose a chapter above !					Emotions are individually exclusive sensible states manifested in body sentiments standing for human needs and their satisfaction. Basically, and even more in the beginning of life, this concerns the need for bodily integrity (safety), nurturing body contacts, warmth and food. Later, these states will be linked to more abstract experiences like social ackowledgement mediated by language and other means. Yet, their developmental conceptual root still lies in the body history and significant relationships.
		The first active brain area in the human life is the somatosensory area together with the hippocampus ("reward area"). The newborn depends on nurturing body contacts. Furtheron, experiencing the world the other senses start to grow by these experiences. The process of concept formation by linking covarying elements of experience is embedded in body contacts with significant others. Covarying parts of experience are cross-modally associated. Physiologically, attention, or, specific cortex (non-)activation, is mediated by somatic thalamus input.
The nerve cells of our senses are highly differentiated. The ability of association within and between the senses (crossmodal) is the basis of our complex concept system. It is built by a multitude of elementary contrasts.				Internal representations (thoughts) can be linked according the prior co-occurence of their external presentations. This is called association. Today, we can approximate a physiological explication of this. Association-in-concrete is the specific crossmodal activation of a cortical network involving a high number of specific neurons making up the specific pattern in a given moment.
					Looking at common findings on explicit and implicit mememory one can figure 'explicit'(or 'conscious') by the crossmodal binding of contrasting experiental elements embedded and weighted by 'emotional' relevance. Emotional relevance is indicated by bodily/human needs. Implicit memory is the unimodal strengthening of specific synaptic patterns. One could also call it the training of a specific sensible or motor nervous pattern by 'processing' it. The crossmodal association, or, emotional integration, is the prerequisite of consciousness/explicit memory.