hooking what’s going

[keannu]

27)Our capacity to make associationsmakes memory more useful. Even very young children, when they see their mother in the kitchen beginning to make dinner preparations, run to the window to start looking for their daddy’s car. This is hooking what’s going on in the kitchen together with daddy’s coming home.

Does "hooking" mean "connect" here?

 

[bhaisahab]

It would seem to, yes.