context-specific learning

learning that has occurred in a particular place, circumstance, or state (e.g., while intoxicated) and is displayed only in that context and not when testing occurs in another context. See also contextual association.

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January 30th 2025

cortical inhibition

inhibition of activity originating in the cerebral cortex or cerebellar cortex.