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adj. - Resembling or forming a network.

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  • I may spell this wrong, but it is related to something in our thought process called our reticular activator.
  • Coverning the entire nervous system is a complex system of cells in the brain stem known as the reticular formation.
  • It is here, too, that the sensory filter is located, which we have been referring to as the reticular activating system (see p. 193).
  • The part of your brain that does this filtering is a fine network of nerves at the base of your brain called the reticular activating system RAS.
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