We need to be thinking about resilience — and how we're going to assimilate events when they happen".
Why is it that Jane can't "assimilate" the events of that night?
One ERP response that has been well-studied across a wide age range is the response to deviance and/or novelty, because the child's ability to detect and assimilate novel events is fundamental to cognitive development (Berg and Sternberg, 1985).
With far less vacillation than most of his peers, Dean somehow assimilated those events and moved on, having conceived a way to reconcile himself to the nuts-and-bolts processes of politics and governance.
In addition, multisensory signals can also be used to update self-representations by assimilating external events into a pre-existing body image [24], [38].
Hence, a subject's judgment that a particular encounter is with God might well be the fruit of assimilating the present event into a larger social practice.
In particular, they are expected to have an impact on the ability of students to assimilate complex spatial and temporal events, and studies suggest that teachers are increasingly positive in their use, acceptance, and attitudes toward these kinds of visually rich media (Schönborn and Anderson, 2006; Harris et al., 2009).
I think my body is still struggling to assimilate this very surprising, very wonderful event.
It is consequently quite natural to assimilate a spike to a random event.
But victims of trauma don't feel victimized -- instead, as the pioneering trauma theorist Cathy Caruth puts it: "... the [traumatic event] is not assimilated or experienced fully at the time, but only belatedly, in its repeated possession of the one who experiences it".
