emotional significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofemotionalandsignificance
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emotional
adjective
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofemotionalandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofemotional significance
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Here the stimulus is imbued withemotionalsignificance.
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Nevertheless, the grave - an increasingly private and domestic entity - retained itsemotionalsignificance.
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Theemotionalsignificanceof mental states determines the evolution of the capacity or structure available for processing, but this is not usually addressed.
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This integration leads to goal-directed behavior bounded by contextual information andemotionalsignificance.
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An event may haveemotionalsignificanceto the extent to which the event is perceived as especially salient or meaningful by an individual.
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These regions interact with the detection node to imbue social stimuli withemotionalsignificance.
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Secondly, the ability to alter behaviour in response to fluctuations in theemotionalsignificanceof stimuli is compromised.
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Gift giving andemotionalsignificanceof family and friends.
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Activity within this pathway is determined in part by theemotionalsignificanceattributed to a stimulus, which, as previously outlined, is also reflected in vagal reactivity.
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Gift giving and theemotionalsignificanceof family and friends.
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The music, however, is often free from any mere correspondence to a movement in the scene and is the sound element to which a higheremotionalsignificanceis generally attributed.
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Line 5 is a summary evaluation that describes theemotionalsignificanceof his experience.
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One of the major areas of study includes the region, called the amygdala, which involvesemotionalsignificanceand associated learning.
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Nobody else writes so openly about theemotionalsignificanceof food.
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When recanting a negative event, humans that receive intranasal oxytocin share more emotional details and stories with moreemotionalsignificance.
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The chimpanzees correctly matched the clips to the facial expressions that shared their meaning, demonstrating that they understand theemotionalsignificanceof their facial expressions.
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This causes cognitive representations of the self and the group to become inevitably connected, and therefore the group obtains anemotionalsignificance.
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Biological organisms associate innate emotional stimuli with other stimuli they encounter in the world and thus give them anemotionalsignificancewhen needed.
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The limbic system is involved in memory storage and retrieval as well as givingemotionalsignificanceto sensory inputs.
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