enregistrationn.
/ˌɛnrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən/ The registering, on the brain, of previous actions, so that performance becomes automatic or instinctive.
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1922 J. Y. Simpson Man & Attainm. Immortality xi. 241 Increased cerebral development involves in some way a wider and more complex range of enregistration and combination of action and reaction, and so, through the presence of alternatives, of choice.
1927 Glasgow Herald 24 Mar. 4 Experiments with rats that quickly master a labyrinth of the Hampton Court maze type point to an enregistration of tactile and muscular sensations.
1930 John o' London's Weekly 8 Mar. 878/3 Enregistration of the past is characteristic of life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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