Collocations withactivation

These are words often used in combination withactivation.

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automatic activation
Such automatic activation is most apparent when inhibitory control is lacking, either following brain insult or during early infancy.
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cortical activation
It may be that threat simulations are associated with increased cortical activation, leading to intensive motor imagery that breaks through the malfunctioning inhibitory mechanisms.
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differential activation
Within a given belief system, individual differences can emerge as a consequence of differential activation of these various mechanisms.
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functional activation
Functional activation of the human frontal cortex during the performance of verbal working memory tasks.
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initial activation
This initial activation may, therefore, be a trigger and/or the initial stages of the processes ultimately leading to binding of that sensory event.
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microglial activation
Pathologically, at 120 days of age, mice treated with minocycline had reduced motor neuron loss, vacuolization, and microglial activation compared to control animals.
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neutron activation
These results demonstrate the sensitivity of neutron activation analysis for assessment of antimonial compounds.
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platelet activation
Thomboses are mediated by an antigen-antibody complex that causes platelet activation in the presence of heparin, referred to as heparin-dependent antibody.
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selective activation
The selective activation considers the measurability of ultrasonic signals at the position of a mobile robot.
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spreading activation
The mechanism underlying backward priming in a lexical decision task: spreading activation versus semantic matching.
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transcriptional activation
The mechanisms whereby tissue-specific transcriptional activation is achieved in the intestine will be discussed.
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