It associates memories, emotions and actions with incoming percepts. The operation of these last two, more complex, memory systems deserves more explanation. Activation is sent to the behavior net, that is, the environment influences action selection. The associative memory is read using the percept as the cue. These associations also activate the behavior net and the emotion module.
Associations influence action selection.
At the same time intermediate term memory is read with the same cue. The most similar case is returned, again with emotion and action, into yet another copy of the expanded perception registers. In the full version consciousness will come into play at this point. Now, an action and an emotion are selected into the two remaining copies of the expanded perception registers along with the current percept. Each is then written to its appropriate memory.