0 present participle of unlearn
1 to make an effort to forget your usual way of doing something so that you can learn a new and sometimes better way:
If one interlocutor can rapidly change another's internal weights, people would be subject to "catastrophic unlearning" of language.
The process of 'unlearning' deepens the impression that not only survival techniques but also existential orientation, which we learned in childhood, are no longer reliable.
The book's concluding chapter attempts, only partially successfully, to address "learning and unlearning to be democratic" (p. 128).
When the learner's grammar is wider than the target grammar, unlearning overgeneralizations becomes less obvious.
However, their resistance to unlearning and ease of relearning were comparable to those of normal children.
Learning how to write is unlearning how to produce multimodal, visual meaning representations.
Unlearning has a stabilizing effect in collective memories.
Finally, the findings of this study suggest that transfer may manifest itself in the difficulty or ease involved in the unlearning of overgeneralizations.
