Crossword-Solution: ENGRAMS
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| ENGRAMS | anagram | GERMANS, MANGERS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENGRAMS (5)
Semon holds that engrams can be inherited, and that an animal's innate habits may be due to the experience of its ancestors; on this subject he refers to Samuel Butler.
The mnemic theory then, if it is to be worth anything, seems to me clearly to require not merely physical records or 'engrams,' but living experience or tradition.
THE ENGRAM An interesting theory maintains that the external impressions made upon an organism which reacts to them and receives them, might be called _engrams_ or "inscriptions." Thus the impression of some object we have seen or touched (let us say we have seen a lion) may remain engraved on our mind as an impression.
Hence every memory picture is one of engrams, whether the impression is a conscious one or an unconscious one.
Now the entire embryonal development of the human child is in reality no more than a continuous process of ecphoration of old engrams, one after another.
Quotes with ENGRAMS (1)
... [O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connectionist or neural network models are based on the principle that the brain stores engrams by increasing the strength of connections between different neurons that participate in encoding an experience. When we encode an experience, connections between active neurons become stronger, a…
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).