evocation

evoke | American Dictionary

evoke
verb[ T ]
us/ɪˈvoʊk/
to cause something to be remembered or expressed:
The smell of chalk always evokes memories of my school days.

evocative

adjectiveus/ɪˈvɑk·ə·t̬ɪv/
The new fashions were evocative of the 1920s.

Examples of evoke

evoke
Preconditioning with bright light evokes a protective response against light damage in the rat retina.
Hearing a piece of music evoked memories from a person's past, and spurred conversation with others about past experiences.
On the other hand their smooth, rounded external form may evoke meaning by recalling, perhaps, human crania.
The passage evokes a gendered division between author and reader, differentiating the "real man" author from the woman that he addresses.
Or it may evoke the image of an ideal world to heal the wounds of the real one.
Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential.
The actress's gesture liberated the object from its material function and endowed it with signals which evoked a metaphoric connection.
The hexagons were scaled with eccentricity to evoke focal responses of comparable amplitude in normal subjects.
Once again, though, biopolitics has not been notably successful in evoking interest in these possible linkages among those in the rest of the discipline.
In comparison to the racial politics of the recent past, affirmative action has evoked much broader opposition among the white public.
This is broadly consistent with the present evidence that in alpha cells the maximum hyperpolarization for nonpreferred contrast steps is evoked by relatively small stimuli.
The crisis evoked fears of abandonment, but it also evoked fears of entrapment.
A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression.
Other referring expressions which evoke entities that are not explicitly referenced may not have these entities so highly ranked, unless warranted by their semantics.
How is it possible for a single larva to reach the ocular chamber and escape from the immune mechanisms without evoking an eosinophilic response?
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