incoming stimulus

collocation in English

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incoming
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɪnˌkʌm.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɪnˌkʌm.ɪŋ/
arriving at or coming towards ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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Thisincomingstimulusfeature then defines the last missing action parameter (e.g., left vs. right keypress).
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Incoming stimuli can now activate information previously logged in memory.
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He argues that the deluded individual's cognition is dominated by one or several schemas (or delusions) that determine or influence the interpretation of incoming stimuli.
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Taken together, preference for symmetry seems to be part of a broader preference for fluent processing of incoming stimuli.
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These children showed diminished primacy and recency effects in list recall tasks; they were not able to process the new incoming stimuli and rehearse the old information simultaneously.
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As it stands, the concept could be read to cover the waterfront of cognitive tasks (all of which require coordinating a task set with specific incoming stimuli).
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This type of attention employs the inhibitory mechanisms of the brain, which help block incoming stimuli that are unrelated to the task at hand.
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The template-matching hypothesis suggests that incoming stimuli are compared with templates in the long term memory.
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Specifically, having strong gender schemata provides a filter through which we process incoming stimuli in the environment.
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Ongoing brain activity may also have an important role in perception, as it may interact with activity related to incoming stimuli.
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Neuronal dendrites have various compartments known as functional units that are able to compute incoming stimuli.
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Michael has been clinically diagnosed with low latent inhibition, a condition in which his brain is more open to incoming stimuli in the surrounding environment.
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