| NOUN | cognition | neurophysiology | the branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system |
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| Meaning | The branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system. | |
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| Category of | all-or-none law | (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus |
| brainwave, brain wave, cortical potential | (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | |
| facilitation | (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | |
| Broader | neuroscience | The scientific study of the nervous system |
| physiology | The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms | |
| Spanish | neurofisiología | |
| Catalan | neurofisiologia | |
| Adjectives | neurophysiological | of or concerned with neurophysiology |
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