neural connection

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neural
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈnjʊə.rəl/
us
/ˈnʊr.əl/
involving a nerve or the system of nerves that includes ...
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connection
noun
uk
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
us
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
the state of being related to someone or ...
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These molecular distinctions will identify and indicate the strength of eachneuralconnection.
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The systems of neural connections that specify the combinations of elemental stimuli constituting long-term episodic memories become activated with the occurrence of familiar events.
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Impairments in attention may be one cognitive deficit resulting from disarrayed cell positioning and nonoptimal neural connections.
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Before meeting humanity, they had an elephant-sized slug-like form, which communicates by directneuralconnection, since they have no vocal organs and no sense of hearing.
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The implications of this point go much further, since interprocess dependency in the brain does not rely only on learned neural connections.
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An important central mechanism for experiencedependent development is the formation of new neural connections.
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The mapping of the retinotectal projection using this activity has been the basis of many studies of the formation of ordered neural connections.
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Differences in neural connections allow for variation in the degree to which activities are influenced by experience and the contents of consciousness.
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From the initial variety of neural connections some are selected by environmental interaction, whereas other connections disappear during the development.
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This modality-specific vocabulary may be tightly connected to brain systems for emotional arousal, given the proliferation of neural connections in early and middle childhood.
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This suggested that humans, too, could use the same mechanism - neural connections of varying strengths - when dealing with both kinds of verbs.
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The differences in sensitivity may provide clues as to the nature of the underlying neural connections that are made during recovery from ouabain treatment.
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Our view is that the neural connections underlying the binding processes that produce episodic links are the basis for both short-term and long-term episodic memory.
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Disruption of normal vision during this formative period can have profound effects on the development of its neural connections.
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No further replication takes place after the environmental interaction, since no (or very few) new neural connections are formed later.
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These transformations include both short-term modulations at neural synapses and long-term changes involving anatomical growth and pruning of neural connections.
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Moreover, we lack the technology to identify the intricate web of neural connections that are created during the developmental process.
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Epinephrine does have a 2 adrenoceptor mediated effect on metabolism and the airway, there being no directneuralconnectionfrom the sympathetic ganglia to the airway.
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Even brief closure of one eye during this impressionable period can reorganize neural connections so that cortical responses are dominated by the open eye.
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On the contrary, considering the possible permutations of neural connections, we should be amazed if there was any similarity and would put that down to an extraordinary coincidence.
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