veridical

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  1. adjective Truthful; veracious: veridical testimony.
  2. adjective Coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities: a veridical hallucination.

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  • In experiment 2, the recognition of love and joy was impaired by the absence of the acting partner, and the recognition of sadness, joy, and fear was impaired in the non-veridical —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We then examine human performance when veridical visual speech information is replaced by purely temporal visual information and find that a minimum sound quality is required for such visual input to improve performance. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This challenges the assumption in many psychophysical studies that the perisaccadic retinal position signal is veridical. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Hence George Weigel's suggestion that Muslims "who seek an Islamic case for tolerance and pluralism" are deserving of our accomodation of their abstract, nonexistent brand of Islam (as opposed to the violent, veridical Islam he writes about otherwise) within a Western Judeo-Christian society is, essentially, and to his discredit, a sophisticated imprudence. —  magic-city-news.com
  • Thus, the cerebellum guarantees both precise performance and veridical perceptual interpretation of actions. adaptation attention blink cerebellum coil_effects corrective_saccade eye_hand internal_model learning loss_function main_sequence motor_control natural_task pd prediction predictive_learning predsacc proprioception saccade saccade_amplitude tbi timing tms_cerebellum zero_error CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin vēridicus : vērus, true; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots + dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from veridic(ous) + -al.
 

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/vəˈrɪdɪkəl/
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