novel stimulus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnovelandstimulus
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novel
adjective
uk/ˈnɒv.əl/us/ˈnɑː.vəl/
new and original, not like anything ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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Looking time is recorded, and longer looking at thenovelstimuluspermits the inference that the infant has discriminated the two emotions.
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This would also enhance the ability of cortex to detect anovelstimulusmore rapidly and less equivocally.
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Acoustic analysis shows that there was no significant difference between the real andnovelstimulusitems on any measure.
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In transfer tests, anovelstimuluscombination was presented, and 25 choices were recorded.
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Because the experimenters usednovelstimulus-punishment associations, it is not immediately clear how any prior learning history could have caused the biased learning patterns that the rats demonstrated.
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This adaptive behavioral response, the visual orienting response, brings the image of thenovelstimulus into the cat's central visual field where it can be more thoroughly assessed.
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A similar phenomenon, inattentional blindness, refers to the tendency to miss anovelstimuluswhen attending to other stimuli.
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Thenovelstimuluscontains all of the relevant features of the original stimulus.
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Before conducting his research, he observed that exposure to anovelstimulusinitially elicits a fear/avoidance response by all organisms.
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After repeated exposure, the observing organism will begin to react fondly to the oncenovelstimulus.
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Each repeated exposure to thenovelstimuluscauses less fear and more of an approach tactic by the observing organism.
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Anovelstimulus, once perceived, is relayed from the sensory cortex of the brain through the thalamus to the brain stem.
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He found neurons in the amygdala that respond to novel or relatively novel stimuli that have no association with reward.
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Learning the novel stimuli is similar to learning a new word that is not a homonym.
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By presenting an inhibitor with anovelstimulus(i.e., its associative strength is zero), the model predicts that the novel cue should become a conditioned excitor.
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For all of the above testing, a complete set of stimuli was made up that included all possible pairings of the novel stimuli.
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Eight photographs of ' junk objects ' were scanned into the computer to serve as novel stimuli.
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By exhibiting curious and exploratory behavior, organisms are able to learn more about thenovelstimulus and thus reduce the state of uncertainty in the brain.
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