Academic Writing Essentials

10 Neurobiology terms

acquisition
noun
the learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality
Example: It may also represent the neural correlate of the acquisition of taste-like properties by odors....
ru: приобретение
aforementioned
adjective
denoting a thing or person previously mentioned
Example: However, the aforementioned complexity problem limits the use of BCIs in this field.
ru: вышеупомянутый
arousal
noun
the action or fact of arousing or being aroused
Example: The N1 amplitude is a stance-dependent response sensible to anticipatory arousal to postural threat.
ru: возбуждение
gustatory
adjective
concerned with tasting or the sense of taste
Example: Indeed, a meta-analysis of gustatory and olfactory neuroimaging investigations showed that...
ru: вкусовой
humidity
noun
the state or quality of being humid
Example: The humidity of the air is adjusted to 25% water vapor with a sparging humidifier.
ru: влажность
incongruent
adjective
not suitable or not fitting well with something else
Example: We have also demonstrated that insular cortex shows supra-additive responses to congruent but not incongruent odor-taste mixtures.
ru: несовместимый
insula
noun
a region of the brain deep in the cerebral cortex
Example: In humans, neuroimaging studies frequently report activations in the insula following taste or odor stimulation.
ru: островковая доля
relevance
noun
the quality or state of being closely connected or appropriate
Example: The P3a predominantly affects frontal-central electrodes and usually leads the other subcomponents in terms of latency, and has functionally been related to exogenous relevance, responding to stimuli that are novel or affectively evocative.
ru: актуальность, уместность
to implement
verb
put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect
Example: This could be implemented as a physiologically adaptive system, such as a brain-computer interface.
ru: осуществлять
upright
adverb
in or into a vertical position
Example: Behavioral experiments showed that upright stance is notnecessarily undermined by a secondary task.
ru: вертикально