preactivations

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A form of preactivation — activation in advance

Scrabble 21

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of preactivation

    In other words, the improvement in recognizing a “visual cloudy” SFM stimulus preceded by an unambiguous SFM stimulus of the same object might be due to the preactivations of neurons tuned to the same SFM stimuli (not just shape, but shape plus motion) at both ventral and dorsal pathways […]

    2015 December 15, “The Visual Priming of Motion-Defined 3D Objects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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