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dishabituation

dishabituation noun: a way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.

Noun

dishabituation (countable and uncountable, plural dishabituations)

  1. A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
    • Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated...2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. Process of reaching a dishabituated state.

Forms of dishabituation

pluraldishabituations

Origin of dishabituation

From dis- + habituation.

Questions about dishabituation

What does dishabituation mean?
Dishabituation means a way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
What part of speech is dishabituation?
Dishabituation is a noun.
What is the plural of dishabituation?
The plural of dishabituation is dishabituations.

Words near dishabituation in the dictionary

  1. dishabits
  2. dishabituate
  3. dishabituated
  4. dishabituates
  5. dishabituating
  6. dishabituation
  7. dishabituations
  8. dishable
  9. dishabled
  10. dishables
  11. dishabling

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