habituation

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Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

It just seems as though through habit, habituation, comfort-sleepwalking, or myopia, we are so narrowly focused on this small tranche of cases and still treat the justices as oracles.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2024

In addition, binging on breakup songs can be part of “a habituation process” that reduces the intensity of feelings associated with a romantic split, Sbarra said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

And so, this is about habituation and conditioning.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024

There was no attempt to explain the details of this process of habituation; it was assumed to be a part of the general "educability" of living matter.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir