Memory is a network of associations, and acquiring new memories about a problem can alter the association network.

“And at the least, even from a learning and memory point of view, memory is all a network of associations. That's how we remember things. And the example I'd like to give is, you go back to your grade school and you see these little tiny lockers and the size is all wrong. And you suddenly have a flood of memories that were obviously stored there, but you just didn't think of. So, context and association is what memory's about. If you start to acquire memories about a problem.”