Dishabituation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dishabituation is a noun meaning A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
Meaning
A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
More Meanings
- Process of reaching a dishabituated state.
Example Sentences
Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated recovery from depression, respectively.
Word Forms
- dishabituations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include habituation, redisposition, rehabituation, refamiliarisation, deacclimatization, redisposal.
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