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HUFFINGTON POST article: America's Word Gap
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- neuronal - Of or relating to neurons: "neural network."
- neuron - Any of the impulse - conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal column, and nerves, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon.
- metacognition - Metacognition refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them, e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data. For example, I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning ...this thing over that thing, therefore, metacognitionally speaking, I should double chcck that over this....etc.
- Mead - An alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water.
- Engram - A postulated biochemical change (presemably in neural tissue) that represents a memory. .....OR, another definition is: a hypothetical neurophysiologic storage unit in the cerebrum that is the source of a particular memory.
- Postulate - Anything assumed or taken for granted...a hypothesis that is offered as true without proof or as a basis for argument or debate.
- Percept - the object of perception...a mental impression of something perceived by the senses. Viewed as the basic component in the formation of concepts......
- Phantasm - something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition ... a platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses.....(is like that same portrait possessed and looked at whenever one wishes for years afterward, although the person painted is absent or even dead.....)
- Precept - Law. an authorized direction or order; a writ. A rule or principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct.
- (n) ion (a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons)
- pterodactyl - Any of various small, extinct flying reptiles (pterosaurs) of the genus Pterodactylus of the late Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. Pterodactyls had long, narrow jaws with sharp teeth, and a wingspan of 1 m (3.3 ft) or less.
- what other types of words would go here? Send suggestions to darlamuse@earthlink.net