reticular formation

English

Noun

reticular formation (plural reticular formations)

Part of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli

Translations

part of brain

Finnish: aivoverkosto

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