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To activate a latent engram as part of memory retrieval.
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By this I mean that, if a subject had e.g. learnt a series A—B—C, etc., and if B was given in the examination, instead of endeavouring to 'ecphore' any related member (i.e. A or C) impartially, the subject more or less unconsciously set his attention in the forward direction […]
I endeavoured to ecphore the remainder of the figure and then an image came up again. I still call this visual, but it had nothing of the sense perception of the primary memory image.
One part of an engram may ecphore another engram in the same way that part of the stimulating situation reinstates the total engram.
We have defined a configuration as a group of engram-sets which tends to ecphore as a whole when a stimulus is acting on part of it.