state-dependent learning

state-dependent learning definition - medical

state-dependent learning

noun
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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