initial activation

collocation in English

meaningsofinitialandactivation

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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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activation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌæk.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæk.təˈveɪ.ʃən/
the act of making something start or making it ...
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(Definition ofinitialandactivationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thisinitialactivationmay, therefore, be a trigger and/or the initial stages of the processes ultimately leading to binding of that sensory event.
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The second stage (dreaming itself) occurs only if and when theinitialactivationstage engages the dopaminergic circuits of the ventromesial forebrain.
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That is, context, though predictive of cer tain meanings, cannot blockinitialactivationof salient meanings even though they are contextually incompatible.
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Theinitialactivationwould automatically activate (more or less at random) one or more emotionally salient episodic memories of waking experience.
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Theinitialactivationmay be random but the output has meaning for the individual.
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Thus, followinginitialactivation, recurrent feedback dynamics begin among all these three codes.
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Theinitialactivationlevel of the winning chunk is related to the number of iterations in the chunk-layer needed to find a clear winner.
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In doing so, this permits phoneme nodes (the speech signal) to driveinitialactivationof phoneme decision nodes and any subsequent lexical effects.
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Theinitialactivationof the button moves the system into a requesting state, until the request is satisfied.
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Subsequent activations of the button between theinitialactivationand the request being satisfied have no effect.
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It's not required to run a client to play the game afterinitialactivation.
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