Meaning of engram | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.
2. A surname transferred from the given name, a rare variant of Ingram.
3. A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.
4. an enneagram, a nine-pointed figure.
5. N-gram, a subsequence.

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Examples

“I use the word engram to denote this permanent change wrought by a stimulus; the sum of such engrams in an organism may be called its "engram-store," among which must distinguish inherited from acquired engrams.”

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