engram

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.
    — 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.
  2. A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.

词形变化

engrams plural engramme alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
engrammic

词源

Borrowed from German Engramm which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 (see quotation below). Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing, picture”).
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