sensory stimulus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensoryandstimulus
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sensory
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsen.sər.i/us/ˈsen.sər.i/
connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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Presumably, one can deposit a musical timbre in memory either passively, through asensorystimulus, or actively, through imagination.
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If low-levelsensorystimuluscomponents alone are unlikely to explain the higher rating, maybe the cognitive knowledge of the banana as being yellow could explain the observers' response.
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Reaction time is the elapsed time between the presentation of asensorystimulusand the subsequent behavioral response.
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Afferent nerve fibers responsible forsensorystimulusdetection and feedback are especially sensitive to stimulation.
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Processing ofsensorystimulusfeatures is essential for humans in determining their responses and actions.
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However, initially, the toads actions were dependent on specific features of thesensorystimulus: whether it demonstrated worm or anti-worm configurations, see.
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Synesthesia is the phenomenon where asensorystimulusproduces an automatic and involuntary reaction in a different sensation.
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Each column typically responds to asensorystimulusrepresenting a certain body part or region of sound or vision.
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In applied pragmatics, for example, meaning is formed through sensory experiences, even thoughsensorystimuluscan not be easily articulated in language or signs.
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The initial responses of the infant are characterized by reactions to sensory stimuli of different qualities and intensities.
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It can also be phase-locked to sensory stimuli.
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As both groups had delusions, the results suggest an association between delusions and impaired judgements about ambiguous sensory stimuli.
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Your limited visual stimulus would be correlated with nonvisual sensory stimuli.
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Premotor neurons are thought to retrieve the appropriate motor acts in response to sensory stimuli.
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These data indicate the importance of cerebellar processing of sensory stimuli for the crosstalk between somatosensory and motor cortices.
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The requisite form of information is obtained, with no loss of adequate perception, by representation of sensory stimuli in frames of reference determined by internal control signals producing actions.
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Anything which we can be aware of shows up within the context of our world, in the sense that it is never experienced as a set of naked sensory stimuli.
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This neuronal coding can provide information for processing the temporal features of sensory stimuli and might represent short-term storage for identifying the predictability of a sequence of sensory stimuli.
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