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Learning

Canonical Glossary | Cognition | Created: 23 June 2026 | Revised: 23 June 2026
🔒 Canonically locked since 23 June 2026 · Revised 23 June 2026.
Definition
Learning is the modification of future activity through the retention of past experience. In APS, learning occurs when interactions with the environment produce organisational changes that alter subsequent behaviour or regulation in ways that affect viability, adaptation, or organised persistence.
In Brief

Learning is experience-dependent modification of future activity.

See Also

  • Memory
  • Biological Agency
  • Regulation
  • Adaptation
  • Information
  • Development
  • Persistence

Referenced By

  • APS Cognitive Lexicon Article Canonical
  • Plant Cognition — A Critical Review and APS Interpretation Article Canonical

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