mneme
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Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
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(initial capital letter) the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.
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Origin of mneme
1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic
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Semon also shows that the phenomena of regeneration in the embryo, as well as those of the adult, obey the law of the mneme.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The mental faculties of animal species, as well as their physical characters, depend on their ancestral hereditary mneme.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
A profound study of blastophthoria and all the phenomena of the mneme and normal heredity leaves no doubt on the possibility of attaining this object.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The phenomena of the hereditary mneme show clearly how ontogeny is the result of engraphia combined with selection, in the series of ancestors.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
They simply represent the internal or introspective side of central activity, and the brain obeys the natural laws of the mneme in the same way as the other organs.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
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