imprinting
im prin ting
- n a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
- v establish or impress firmly in the mind
- v mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
- For the final stage, koka'anga, up to 20 village women gather around a low convex table, where two layers of cloth are stretched over a design stencil, imprinting its motif when .
- Doctors believe that maternal diabetes increases children's obesity risk through what's referred to as metabolic imprinting.
- Defects in imprinting in humans are thought to contribute to such neurodevelopmental ailments as Prader-Willi syndrome and perhaps some forms of autism.