stimulus item

collocation in English

meaningsofstimulusanditem

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stimulus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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item
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaɪ.təm/us
/ˈaɪ.t̬əm/
something that is part of a list or group ...
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(Definition ofstimulusanditemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstimulus item

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When the participant was correctly looking at the fixation point, the experimenter pressed a button, causing astimulusitemto appear on the screen.
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I unit 22 marked whether the onestimulusitemor a pair (singular or plural stimuli) was presented.
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A masking stimulus, consisting of "######" on the computer screen, was introduced after the offset of thestimulusitem.
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A masking stimulus, consisting of # # # # # # on the computer screen, was introduced after the offset of thestimulusitem.
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If compound stress is heard, a lexical search is made for a match with thestimulusitem.
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The computer recorded the length of time eachstimulusitemwas on the screen from the presentation onset to the lexical decision response.
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Eachstimulusitemwas elicited one time in a story re-telling task.
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Eachstimulusitemoccurred two times (each produced by a different speaker) in the final stimulus set.
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Each subject was presented with each initialstimulusitemwith a new name embedded in one of the syntactic frames, along with an interesting function of thatstimulusitem.
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The computer recorded the length of time astimulusitemwas on the screen from the press of the space bar for stimulus presentation to the lexical decision response.
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Reaction times between the onset and offset of eachstimulusitemwere measured and, together with the judgement responses, recorded.
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Eachstimulusitemwas read aloud by the subject a total of nine times throughout the course of the experiment: three times each across three separate blocks.
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Once different stress patterns were recognized they were used increasingly to permit subjects to accurately select either the compound or the phrasal meaning of astimulusitem.
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All stimulus items were played over headphones.
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The study used 28 stimulus items constructed of five morae.
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All of the stimulus items were presented in hiragana.
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The stimulus items were presented randomly.
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Whatever the explanation, the present results show that for the two-phoneme stimulus items there was some awareness of phoneme segments.
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To ensure adequate clarity of the recorded stimuli, two listeners, blind to the stimulus items, phonetically transcribed the words.
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The stimulus items were presented in a random order.
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