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Process routine: a routine defined by its form and duration
Process routine: a routine defined by its form and duration rather than by its outcome, where the behavioral experience is consistent across repetitions regardless of output quality, and which produces a stable temporal signature that allows the basal ganglia to encode a single chunk
Why This Is a Definition
This definition precisely distinguishes 'process routine' from outcome routines by focusing on form and duration rather than results, explains the mechanistic requirement for stable temporal signatures for chunking, and directly references the basal ganglia's encoding mechanism that makes this distinction meaningful for habit formation.