Crossword-Solution: ENGRAM
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENGRAM | anagram | GERMAN, GRAMEN, MANGER, RAGMEN |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ENGRAM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hypothetical memory unit | 1 answer |
| Memory imprint | 1 answer |
| Memory pathway | 1 answer |
| Memory trace | 1 answer |
| Memory trace, in theory | 1 answer |
| Neural "recording," basis of memory. | 1 answer |
| Persistence of memory concept | 1 answer |
| Persistence of memory effect | 1 answer |
| physical basis of an individual memory in the brain | 1 answer |
| "Persistence of Memory" | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENGRAM (5)
The state of equilibrium before the stimulus may be called the "primary indifference-state"; that after the cessation of the stimulus, the "secondary indifference-state." We define the "engraphic effect" of a stimulus as the effect in making a difference between the primary and secondary indifference-states, and this difference itself we define as the "engram" due to the stimulus.
They are explained without it by Semon's "engram," or by any theory which regards the results of experience as embodied in modifications of the brain and nerves.
For my part, however, I have no such desire, and I shall therefore endeavour to state the grounds which occur to me in favour of some such view as that of the "engram." One of the first points to be urged is that mnemic phenomena are just as much to be found in physiology as in psychology.
The theory of the engram, or any similar theory, has to maintain that, given a body and brain in a suitable state, a man will have a certain memory, without the need of any further conditions.
And the definition of perspectives and biographies, though it does not yet yield anything that would be commonly called "mental," is presupposed in mental phenomena, for example in mnemic causation: the causal unit in mnemic causation, which gives rise to Semon's engram, is the whole of one perspective--not of any perspective, but of a perspective in a place where there is nervous tissue, or at any rate living tissue of some sort.
Quotes with ENGRAM (2)
... [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…
For the fact is that neuroscientists who study memory remain unclear on the question of whether each time we remember something we are accessing a stable “memory fragment” — often called a “trace” or an “engram” — or whether each time we remember something we are literally creating a new “trace” to house the thought. And since no one has yet been able to discern the material of these traces, nor to locate them in the brain, how one thinks of them remains mostly a matter of me…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1964–2018).