The phrase "adaptation played" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the role or impact of adaptation in a particular context, such as in biology, literature, or social sciences.
Example: "In the evolution of species, adaptation played a crucial role in their survival and success in changing environments."
Alternatives: "adaptation was significant" or "adaptation had an impact".
It is, of course, also remembered because of the famous film adaptation played by Spencer Tracy.
Nelson then guided Cliff Robertson to the best-actor Oscar with Charly (1968), a popular expansion of Daniel Keyes's classic science-fiction story "Flowers for Algernon". Robertson, repeating his role in the 1961 television adaptation, played an intellectually disabled man who is temporarily transformed into a genius after scientists give him an experimental drug.
Thus, it appears unlikely that sensory adaptation played a significant role.
2) Orientation tuning is less affected by contrast when neurons are given enough time to adapt to one particular contrast, suggesting that contrast adaptation plays a role in contrast-invariance of orientation tuning.
In all tests, mesh adaptation plays a crucial role.
Adaptation plays a fundamental role in case-based design.
But Gordon's adaptation plays down both Charlie's financial desperation and deep unpleasantness.
Susan L. Schwartz, who masterminded the production and wrote the adaptation, plays Debbie, a high school cheerleader who has just achieved her dream: a job as a Dallas Cowgirl.
We propose that our findings fit with a wider view in which perceptual adaptation plays a central role in the visual processing of own and other race.
His adaptation plays on the audience's affection for Ms. Zellweger's scrappy Kewpie-doll-with-a-heart image before exposing the knowing smirk and steel-jacketed ambition looming beneath Roxie's dimples.
Watching "Comme Toujours," I thought of a moment in Target Margin Theater's "Uncle Vanya" (another marvelous adaptation playing this week at Here) in which an actor holds up a handwritten sign announcing, "Time Passes".
