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WHAT DOES INNATE RELEASING MECHANISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

innate releasing mechanism

Fixed action pattern

In ethology, a fixed action pattern, or modal action pattern, is an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion. Fixed action patterns are invariant and are produced by a neural network known as the innate releasing mechanism in response to an external sensory stimulus known as a sign stimulus or releaser. A fixed action pattern is one of the few types of behaviors which can be said to be hard-wired and instinctive.

Definition of innate releasing mechanism in the English dictionary

The definition of innate releasing mechanism in the dictionary is the process by which a stimulus evokes a response when the connection between the two is inborn IRM.

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Translation of «innate releasing mechanism» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

先天释放机制
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mecanismo de liberación innata
570 millions of speakers

English

innate releasing mechanism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जन्मजात रिहा तंत्र
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

آلية الافراج الفطرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

врожденный пусковой механизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mecanismo de libertação inato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বাভাবিক মুক্তি প্রক্রিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

innée mécanisme de libération
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mekanisme pembebasan semula jadi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

angeborenen Auslösemechanismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

生来の解除機構
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

타고난 해제기구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mekanisme ngilangi resik
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cơ chế phát hành bẩm sinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்ளார்ந்த வெளியீட்டு முறைமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जन्मजात प्रकाशीय यंत्रणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Doğuştan serbest bırakma mekanizması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

innato meccanismo di sgancio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wrodzony mechanizm zwalniający
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вроджений пусковий механізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mecanismul de eliberare innascuta
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

έμφυτο μηχανισμό απελευθέρωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ingebore vrystelling meganisme
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

medfödda utlösningsmekanismen
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

medfødt frigjøres
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INNATE RELEASING MECHANISM»

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The Intelligent Imitator: Towards an Exemplar Theory of ...
Sixth, as stressed by Meltzoff & Moore (1983a), an innate releasing mechanism does not require the "sign stimulus" to be morphologically similar to its fixed action pattern. Hence, while such a mechanism might conceivably explain the regular ...
R. Kvadsheim, 1992
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The Foundations of Ethology
... connotations suggested that something like an outline or an image of the whole situation or object was innate. In discussing the methods of dual quantification, I was forced to anticipate Afferent Processes The Innate Releasing Mechanism ...
‎1981
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Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries
It would be easy to produce ad hoc assumptions about temporary changes in threshold of the innate releasing mechanism as a result of tactual stimulation. But these must be recognized as ad hoc. The possibility should be recognized that any ...
Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, Animal Behavior Society, 1996
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
Comment: The innate-releasing schema, now an obsolete concept, is the historical antecedent of the innate releasing mechanism (Immelmann and Beer 1989, 150). ♢♢Innendienst n. In social insects: Work inside a nest (Wilson 1975, 412). cf.
Edward M. Barrows, 2011
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Advances in Insect Physiology APL
293 Gryllus campestris, amplitude modulation, innate releasing mechanism and, 269 amplitude modulation pattern, 310 auditory mechanism. evolution. 338 calling song, 268 contralateral co-ordination, sound production and. 250 female ...
J W Beament, J. E. Treherne, Michael J. Berridge, 1978
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The Evolved Structure of Human Social Behaviour and ...
Each releaser activates a specific “innate releasing mechanism” (the perceptual correlate of the releaser) and, thereby, sets off the innate behaviour sequence ( instinct). The “innate releasing mechanism” (“innate releasing schema”) is ...
Ralf-Peter Behrendt, 2012
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Advances in Insect Physiology
... electromyograms 13: 243 female, innate releasing mechanism 13: 276, 277 phonotatic reaction 13: 275 muscle activity, co-ordination, sound production and 13: 245 nymphs, sound production 13: 3l7 song patterns 13: 24l evolution 13: 334, ...
Steve Simpson, 2003
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Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan
But one of the most interesting conclusions of the ethological analysis is that the central pattern generator that produces a fixed action pattern is itself activated by an innate releasing mechanism — a mechanism in the central nervous system ...
Larry W. Swanson, 2012
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The Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Life Sciences
THE INNATE RELEASING MECHANISM (iRM) The conception of a continuous production of central nervous system excitation, normally blocked by another inhibitory mechanism, led to the assumption of a special afferent apparatus which  ...
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The Social Science Encyclopedia
... the performance of the FAR Appetitive hehaviour causes the animal to look for a configuration of stimuli which release the FAR These stimuli are recognized innately according to a hypothetical mechanism, the 'innate releasing mechanism '.
Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper, 1996

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Neuroscience: As the worm turns
At the same time, the ethologists described an “innate releasing mechanism”, a slower orchestration of these fast responses that increases the ... «Nature.com, Feb 13»

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