visual stimulus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvisualandstimulus
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visual
adjective
uk/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/us/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/
relating ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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(Definition ofvisualandstimulusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An intuitive explanation can be given in terms of the influences of the spatial frequencies of thevisualstimuluson neural activity during oculomotor behavior.
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In vivo, thevisualstimulusactivates inputs over a much wider area, including both the direct excitatory input and lateral inhibitory inputs.
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Viewed by human subjects, thisvisualstimulusgives a percept of a rigid, square target protruding from the background plane.
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In the literature, however, an off-response is often an increase in firing rate caused by the removal of avisualstimulus.
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This result suggests that both subject groups tended to rely on thevisualstimulusto make their decisions.
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By doing so, spike timing could be used effectively when there is a limited time to process avisualstimulus.
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These effects are especially critical when exploring the time course of the neuronal responses to the ending of avisualstimulus(off-response).
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Subjects were instructed to refrain from physically tapping or vocalizing along with thevisualstimulus.
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A cell selectively tuned to multiple attributes of avisualstimulusmay implicitly solve the binding problem.
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Thevisualstimuluswas the same as with the hemisphere.
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Another visual parameter for which directional selectivity, as a trigger feature, should be relatively independent is the exact shape or orientation of thevisualstimulus.
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The two retinal images were identical; there was no disparity information in thevisualstimulus.
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In this procedure the delay between thevisualstimulusand the warning tone is varied to maintain 50% success rate at withholding the response.
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We do, however, claim that to possess color vision an organism must have the ability to extract information about reflectance from thevisualstimulus.
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Neurons not activated by thevisualstimulusare indicated as small gray circles.
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This occurs because thevisualstimuluscomes from a wider area, and also because the neuronal network is still intact.
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The primaryvisualstimulusused was a small (1.2-cm diameter) round black magnetic object.
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It may be a failure to register the occurrence of avisualstimulusfor a number of possible behavioral responses.
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