Underactivate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Underactivate is a verb meaning To produce insufficient levels of activation.
Meaning
To produce insufficient levels of activation.
Example Sentences
In contrast, struggling readers underactivate the reading systems in the back of the brain and overactivate the system in the front of the brain.
Wood and Flowers (1999) demonstrated with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that the same brain regions that underactivate in dyslexia also underactivate in the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
An important discovery over the last ten years comes from studies that parametrically varied working memory load to establish that, compared to younger adults, older adults tend to overactivate PFC regions at lower loads, and to underactivate at higher loads, where performance also drops off.
Word Forms
- underactivates
- underactivating
- underactivated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inactivate, understimulate, deactivate, underactuate, underproduce, disactivate.
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