differential activation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifferentialandactivation
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differential
adjective
uk/ˌdɪf.əˈren.ʃəl/us/ˌdɪf.əˈren.ʃəl/
based on ...
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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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Within a given belief system, individual differences can emerge as a consequence ofdifferentialactivationof these various mechanisms.
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In addition, the wide difference in affective tone between individual dreams must reflectdifferentialactivationof limbic circuits subserving different emotional states.
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Unlike control participants, however, adults with autism failed to showdifferentialactivationfor congruent versus incongruent trials.
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However, both children and adolescents also haddifferentialactivationin regions not found to show differences in adults.
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We may refer to this as the "differentialactivation" proposal.
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One of the crucial areas ofdifferentialactivationwas, rather unexpectedly, the temporal pole.
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Thedifferentialactivationof sublexical units leads to speech errors in words with certain neighbourhood characteristics, but not others.
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Although plausible,differentialactivationis unlikely for several reasons.
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This indicates not only an absence ofdifferentialactivation, but also an absence of any activation.
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The systemin signaling pathway:differentialactivationof plant defensive genes.
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Since their amplitudes were site dependent, this would result indifferentialactivation, which would alter amplitude variability, possibly increasing it.
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In a recent imaging study,differentialactivationpatterns were observed for the same stimulus material (meaningful sounds) as a function of a verbal encoding task versus a non-verbal judgment task.
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We recommend that before considering more sophisticated proposals, future work on bilingual lexical access should be directed at rejecting the simplest possibility, which we call the "differentialactivation" hypothesis.
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Although the common response for the average right-handed individual is to display adifferentialactivation of right hemisphere mechanisms in response to chimeric stimuli, there are individual differences.
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If there are differing patterns of interactions between regions in atypical development, then the brain regions that showdifferentialactivationcompared to controls will vary during different tasks.
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The authors of this study suggest thatdifferentialactivationof the prefrontal cortex occurs because the different contexts require unique attempt processes for retrieval.
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Differentialactivationin response to painful stimulation has also been demonstrated.
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