engram

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Oh! Some quick Scientology auditing has uncovered an earlier engram, and I remember I had Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls" on cassette when I was about 6 years old, because, again, I thought the cover was cool.

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  1. noun A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.

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  • Oh! Some quick Scientology auditing has uncovered an earlier engram, and I remember I had Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls" on cassette when I was about 6 years old, because, again, I thought the cover was cool. —  MetaFilter
  • They tell you that Jesus is an engram, an implanted notion. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram? —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • He may end up being a great possession receiver … poor mans bobby engram type career? —  Black Shoe Diaries
  • 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. —  The Analysis of Mind
 

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  1. German Engramm : en-2 + Greek -gramma, -gram.
 

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