Collocations withstimulus
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acoustic stimulus
Neuronal responses to the acoustic stimuli were recorded together with the responses to current injection.
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additional stimulus
This knowledge may have served as an additional stimulus for his interest in the field.
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auditory stimulus
To replicate simultaneously individual pitches or short melodic patterns after an auditory stimulus involves fewer synthesis skills and requires less self-monitoring over time.
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aversive stimulus
Thus, in negative reinforcement, one does something to escape or avoid an aversive stimulus.
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conditioned stimulus
Additionally, the capsule a patient receives is pharmacologically inert, but hardly inert with respect to its symbolic value and its power as a conditioned stimulus.
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discriminative stimulus
To provide context, our laboratories have focused historically on analyzing discriminative stimulus control.
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electrical stimulus
Fig. 11 (top) shows a record in which typical spontaneous spiking occurred before the electrical stimulus to the tectum was delivered.
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environmental stimulus
In this manner, the particular environmental stimulus that most strongly regulates germination under natural conditions can be identified.
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experimental stimulus
High quality training and experimental stimulus tapes were created.
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external stimulus
Metacognition must be about a retrieved representation, a mental event, or some cognitive entity, not about an external stimulus.
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federal stimulus
Districts experienced a reduction in funding due to the loss of federal stimulus funding which ended in 2011.
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given stimulus
Novelty appraisal assesses whether a given stimulus is the same as previously encountered stimuli or whether it is new.
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incoming stimulus
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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initial stimulus
His suggestion that we attempt to generate stationary equilibria of this kind provided the initial stimulus for the work reported here. 10.
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internal stimulus
After childbirth, prolactin levels fall as the internal stimulus for them is removed.
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irrelevant stimuli
Such attention deficits in schizophrenia are mainly characterized by an inability to sustain attention and to ignore irrelevant stimuli.
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mechanical stimulus
Pre- and post-stimulus refer to unit firing before and after application of the mechanical stimulus, respectively.
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negative stimulus
The literature on the psychology of choice leads us to expect that the effect of the negative stimulus (the risk of losses) may be different across electoral winners and losers.
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neutral stimulus
In essence, this is a classical conditioning procedure training an animal to make an association between a neutral stimulus (cue) or situation (context) and an aversive stimulus (usually shock).
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novel stimulus
Looking time is recorded, and longer looking at the novel stimulus permits the inference that the infant has discriminated the two emotions.
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noxious stimulus
Open dots, units inhibited by noxious stimulus; filled dots: units excited by noxious stimulus.
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olfactory stimulus
This evolutionarily ancient, momentary broadband coherence on olfactory stimulus recognition appears to have been conserved in isocortical-motor circuits.
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painful stimulus
Facial expressions of pain appear to be part of a rather elementary pain response of writhing, which would seem to serve the function of getting rid of the painful stimulus.
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powerful stimulus
During the 1930s a powerful stimulus to the rise of post-war corporate suburbs was initiated.
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salient stimulus
To efficiently resolve the conflict between the two cues, the more salient stimulus feature must be ignored in favor of the less salient correct option.
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sensory stimulus
Presumably, one can deposit a musical timbre in memory either passively, through a sensory stimulus, or actively, through imagination.
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social stimulus
The social stimulus that is being used is a "stare" from a human stranger.
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specific stimulus
This synchronous firing may therefore be a by-product of pooling or "excitation sharing" rather than a more specific stimulus parameter encoding mechanism.
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stimulus condition
Each stimulus condition was repeated at least 100 times.
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stimulus item
When the participant was correctly looking at the fixation point, the experimenter pressed a button, causing a stimulus item to appear on the screen.
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stimulus material
The software controlled the presentation of stimulus material while recording response selections and reaction times.
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tactile stimulus
Although she would open her eyes and visually follow people in her room, she made no response to any sort of verbal or tactile stimulus.
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unconditioned stimulus
It implies that there is an unconditioned stimulus that activates major components of the behavior of interest.
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verbal stimulus
If the patient is not completely alert, the examiner should attempt a verbal stimulus to arouse the patient.
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visual stimulus
An intuitive explanation can be given in terms of the influences of the spatial frequencies of the visual stimulus on neural activity during oculomotor behavior.
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