ecphoreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from German ekphorieren.

動詞

ecphore (third-person singular simple present ecphores, present participle ecphoring, simple past and past participle ecphored)

1. (psychology, rare, obsolete) To activate a latent engram as part of memory retrieval.
   • 1912, Psychological Laboratory, University of London, University College Collected Papers‎, volume III, via Google Books, retrieved 30 August 2026:

     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 […]

   • 1915, N. Carey, “Factors in the Mental Processes of School Children”, in The British Journal of Psychology, volume VII, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 August 2026, page 479:

     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.

   • 1924 September, Harry L. Hollingworth, “Particular Features of Meaning”, in Psychological Review, volume XXXI, number 5, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 August 2026, page 353:

     One part of an engram may ecphore another engram in the same way that part of the stimulating situation reinstates the total engram.

   • 1926, Ida Beata Saxby, “III: The Growth of the Conscious Self: THe Habit and the Complex”, in The Psychology of the Thinker, University of London Press, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 August 2026, page 33:

     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.

関連する語

• ecphoria
• ecphoration
• ecphorization

参照

• “ecphore, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2025.