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Meaning of dishabituation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
  2. Process of reaching a dishabituated state.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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