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Meaning of "equipotentiality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EQUIPOTENTIALITY

equipotentiality  [ˌiːkwɪpəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EQUIPOTENTIALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Equipotentiality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EQUIPOTENTIALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Equipotentiality

Equipotentiality refers to a psychological theory in both neuropsychology and behaviorism. Karl Spencer Lashley defined equipotentiality as “The apparent capacity of any intact part of a functional brain to carry out… the functions which are lost by the destruction of ”. Another way of putting this is, the brain has the ability to use any functioning part of the brain to do what a damaged part of the brain no longer can do. Equipotentiality is subject to the other term Lashley coined, the law of mass action. The law of mass action says that the efficiency of any complex function of the brain is reduced proportionately to how much damage the brain as a whole has sustained, but not to the damage of any particular area of the brain. In this context when we use brain we are referring to the cortex.

Definition of equipotentiality in the English dictionary

The definition of equipotentiality in the dictionary is the quality or state of having equal power or effect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EQUIPOTENTIALITY


bestiality
ˌbɛstɪˈælɪtɪ
collegiality
kəˌliːdʒɪˈælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
congeniality
kənˌdʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
conviviality
kənvɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
essentiality
ɪˌsenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
ideality
ˌaɪdɪˈælɪtɪ
immateriality
ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
impartiality
ˌɪmpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
joviality
ˌdʒəʊvɪˈælɪtɪ
materiality
məˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
partiality
ˌpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
potentiality
pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ
reality
rɪˈælɪtɪ
spatiality
ˌspeɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ
speciality
ˌspɛʃɪˈælɪtɪ
substantiality
səbˌstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ
territoriality
ˌtɛrɪˌtɔːrɪˈælɪtɪ
triviality
ˌtrɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
unreality
ˌʌnrɪˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EQUIPOTENTIALITY

equiparate
equiparation
equipartition
equipment
equipoise
equipollence
equipollency
equipollent
equipollently
equiponderance
equiponderancy
equiponderant
equiponderate
equipotent
equipotential
equipped
equipper
equipping
equiprobability
equiprobable

WORDS THAT END LIKE EQUIPOTENTIALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
sexuality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of equipotentiality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «equipotentiality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EQUIPOTENTIALITY

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The translations of equipotentiality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «equipotentiality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

等电位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

equipotencialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

equipotentiality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

equipotentiality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

equipotentiality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эквипотенциальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

equipotencialidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

equipotentiality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

équipotentialité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Equipotentiality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Potentialausgleich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

等電位
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

등전위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Equipotentiality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

equipotentiality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எல்லாதிறங்களிலும் சம ஆற்றலுடைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समतोलपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

potansiyel dengelemesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

equipotenzialità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekwipotencjalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

еквіпотенційної
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

equipotentiality
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ισοδυναμικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

equipotentiality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

potentialutjämning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekvipotensialforbindelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of equipotentiality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EQUIPOTENTIALITY»

The term «equipotentiality» is used very little and occupies the 180.291 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EQUIPOTENTIALITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about equipotentiality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EQUIPOTENTIALITY»

Discover the use of equipotentiality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to equipotentiality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Phase I: Equipotentiality Not long after the first 19th-century studies linking aphasia to left-hemisphere damage in adults, studies appeared suggesting that children with the same kinds of damage have little or no difficulty with language ( Co- ...
Charles Alexander Nelson, Monica Luciana, 2001
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An Introduction to the History of Psychology
He found no evidence that stimulation of specific areas of the brain is associated with the elicitation of specific responses. Mass Action and Equipotentiality Lashley made two major observations that were contrary to the switchboard conception ...
B. Hergenhahn, 2008
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Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into ...
Lashley discussed two "laws" in this context. One was the law of equi potentiality, and the other was the law of mass function (mass action). "Equipotentiality," a term used by Lashley and Franz in 1917, was defined in 1929 as follows: The term ...
Stanley Finger, 2001
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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
204 Cortical Localization, History of particularly on rats in a complex maze, he proposed two principles of brain organization, "equipotentiality" and "mass action " (Lashley 1929). Equipotentiality was the apparent capacity of any intact part of a  ...
Robert Andrew Wilson, Frank C. Keil, 2001
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
The contrasting positions represented in these reviews correspond to three partially overlapping periods in history, starting with a period dominated by a belief in equipotentiality, moving to a phase characterized by a belief in irreversible ...
Helen Tager-Flusberg, 1999
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychological Terms
Equipotentiality: In connection with various experiments on brain localization Lashley concluded that complex learning does not depend on any definite structure of a specific area of the cortex; it rather depends upon the total organization in ...
J. C. Banerjee, 1994
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Principles of Neuropsychology
Other re- searchers soon expressed support for the equipotentiality position. In general, these researchers proposed that, although basic sensorimotor functions may be localized in the brain, higher cortical processes were too complex to ...
Eric Zillmer, Mary Spiers, William Culbertson, 2007
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Philosophy and Connectionist Theory
Thus, insofar as Lashley is regarded as having determined that memories are represented in distributed fashion in the brain—a very common move— distribution is being at least implicitly equated with equipotentiality. The same is true when ...
William Ramsey, David E. Rumelhart, Stephen P. Stich, 2013
9
Brain Injury Medicine, 2nd Edition: Principles and Practice
When sparing of function is observed, it is often attributed to the equipotentiality or vicarious function of cerebral (usually cortical) areas. Equipotentiality refers to the capacity of anatomically distinct areas of the brain to mediate a rather wide ...
Nathan D. Zasler MD, Douglas I. Katz MD, Ross D. Zafonte DO, 2012
10
Anxiety
equipotentiality. premise. The theory assumes that any stimulus can be transformed into a fear signal; the choice of stimulus is a matter of indifference. Seligman (1970, 1971) argued convincingly that this premise is untenable, and hence its ...
Stanley Rachman, Stanley J. Rachman, 2013

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EQUIPOTENTIALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term equipotentiality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Deletion of Rapgef6, a candidate schizophrenia susceptibility gene …
Equipotentiality of thalamo-amygdala and thalamo-cortico-amygdala circuits in auditory fear conditioning. J Neurosci 1992; 12: 4501–4509. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
Do we really only use 10% of our brain?
Lashley proposed the principle of “equipotentiality”, meaning that different areas of the brain can carry out the same functions. He added to this ... «The Conversation, Jul 14»
3
How the "10 Percent of Our Brains" Myth Started (And Why It's Wrong)
... atop it) and equipotentiality (that sensory perception can be relearned by other regions of the brain after damage) have given rise to the myth. «Gizmodo, Jul 14»
4
If we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?
Equipotentiality is the necessary antidote to the ranking methodologies that infect authoritarian and hierarchical spiritual forms. According to the ... «Open Democracy, Jul 14»
5
Crowdsourcing investigative journalism: a case study (part 1)
... p120, emphasis in original) and of “produsage”, whose affordances included probabilistic problem solving, granular tasks, equipotentiality, ... «Online Journalism Blog, Nov 11»
6
Book Sheds New Light on Baboon Social Scene
They believed in the principle of equipotentiality. As Skinner famously remarked, "Pigeon, rat, monkey, which is which? It doesn't matter àonce ... «NPR, Dec 07»

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