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mnemic, a.|ˈniːmɪk| [f. as prec. + -ic.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving mneme. Hence ˈmnemically adv., ˈmnemicness, the state or quality of being mnemic.
1908Daily Chron. 3 Sept. 5/7 Alleging the existence of a mnemic factor in the life of plants. 1913[see prec.]. 1921B. Russell Analysis of Mind iv. 78 Following a suggestion derived from Semon..we will give the name of ‘mnemic phenomena’ to those responses. 1921L. Simon tr. Semon's Mneme 11 Instead of speaking of a factor of memory, a factor of habit, or a factor of heredity, and attempting to identify one with another, I have preferred to consider these as manifestations of a common principle, which I shall call the mnemic principle. This mnemic property may be regarded from a purely physiological point of view, inasmuch as it is traced back to the effect of stimuli applied to the irritable organic substance. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place viii. 377 Experiences which are owned in senses (2) or (3) may be said to be ‘mnemically owned’. 1941Mind L. 417 The only perceptible difference between conscious and non-conscious behaviour is mnemicness. 1943A. M. Farrer Finite & Infinite xvii. 201 That already depends on the mnemic content, which disposes us to attention in one direction rather than another, because certain elements of memory are pressing closest to the gate. 1963O. L. Zangwill tr. Luria's Restoration of Function after Brain Injury vi. 213 The patient retained the content of this particular thought, and..his difficulties were dynamic in nature rather than mnemic. 1968S. Bogoch Biochem. Memory vi. 194 That is, the glycoproteins of the nervous system represent the mnemic substances in which experiential information is encoded. |