state-dependent learning

n.

Learning associated with a specific state of sleep or wakefulness or with a chemically altered state, such that the learned information cannot be recalled or used unless the subject is restored to the state that existed when learning first occurred.

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Words nearby state-dependent learning

state trooper, state university, state visit, state's attorney, state's evidence, state-dependent learning, statecraft, stated, stated case, statehood, statehooder
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