The simplest kind of integration network.

A simplex network involves two input spaces, one that contains a frame with roles and another that contains values. What makes this an integration network is that it gives rise to a blended space containing emergent structure that is in neither of the input spaces taken individually. Consider the following example: Max is the son of Angela. This utterance prompts for an integration network in which there is one input containing a family frame with roles for mother and son. The second input contains the values john and Mary. The integration network compresses the role-value outer-space relation into uniqueness in the blend, so that max is the son and Angela the mother, and so that max is Angela's son. The motivation for the cross-space connectors is the generic space which contains the elements female and male.

These elements identify potential counterparts in the input spaces.