habituations

Noun

habituation (countable and uncountable, plural habituations)

1. The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
   • Custome can give a Iurisdiction; neither is there any stronger law than it: The continued use then of any known sinne, be it never so small, gives (as Gersons phrase is) a strong habituation ; and, though it be a true rule, that habits do only incline, not compell; yet the inclination that is...1637, Joseph Hall, The Remedy of Prophanenesse, section 13, page 179
2. The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
   • 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