en·gram

(ĕn′grăm′)

A physical alteration of neural tissue in the brain, posited to explain how memories are formed.

[German Engramm : en- + Greek -gramma, -gram.]

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engram

(ˈɛnɡræm)

(Psychology) psychol the physical basis of an individual memory in the brain. See also memory trace

[C20: from German Engramm, from Greek en- in + gramma letter]

enˈgrammic, ˌengramˈmatic adj

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en•gram

(ˈɛn græm)

n.

a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.

[1905–10; en-¹ + -gram1]

en•gram′mic, adj.

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Noun

engram - a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory

memory trace

memory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"

Translations

en·gram

n. engrama;

marca permanente hecha en el protoplasma por un estímulo pasajero;

vestigio o visión imborrable producida por una experiencia sensorial.

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The state of equilibrium before the stimulus may be called the "primary indifference-state"; that after the cessation of the stimulus, the "secondary indifference-state." We define the "engraphic effect" of a stimulus as the effect in making a difference between the primary and secondary indifference-states, and this difference itself we define as the "engram" due to the stimulus.

These two laws together represent in part a hypothesis (the engram), and in part an observable fact.

Concerning the nature of an engram, Semon confesses that at present it is impossible to say more than that it must consist in some material alteration in the body of the organism ("Die mnemischen Empfindungen," p.

I am inclined to think that, in the present state of physiology, the introduction of the engram does not serve to simplify the account of mnemic phenomena.

They are explained without it by Semon's "engram," or by any theory which regards the results of experience as embodied in modifications of the brain and nerves.

The theory of the engram, or any similar theory, has to maintain that, given a body and brain in a suitable state, a man will have a certain memory, without the need of any further conditions.

We call this an "ekphoric influence," and stimuli having this character are called "ekphoric stimuli." In such a case we call the engrams of the two stimuli "associated." All simultaneously generated engrams are associated; there is also association of successively aroused engrams, though this is reducible to simultaneous association.

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