Since the cognitive revolution, associationism’s influence has mostly died out in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. This is not to say that all aspects of associative theorizing are dead in these areas; rather, they have just taken on much smaller, more peripheral roles (for example, it has often been suggested that mental lexicons are structured, in part, associatively, which is why lexical decision tasks are taken to be facilitation maps of one’s lexicon). In other areas of cognitive psychology (for example, the study of causal cognition), associationism is no longer the dominant theoretical paradigm, but vestiges of associationism still persist (see Shanks 2010 for an overview of associationism in causal cognition). Associationism is also still alive in the connectionist literature, as well as in the animal cognition tradition.