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Synonyms for stimulus

something that incites especially a violent response

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The N400 component is a negative-event-related potential (ERP) that reaches its peak amplitude approximately 400 ms after stimulus onset.
In this experiment, after stimulus onset, the premier expression was assumed to be the first measurable emotional response and was considered to be unaffected by conscious or unconscious manipulation, although the responses occurring subsequent to it were.
Perceptual learning that it thought to occur during exposure to a stimulus has no direct behavioural correlate.
Kuroda, who has been in office for five years, is facing doubts about his continuation in office and the effectiveness of stimulus measures that the apex bank has been pursuing following the global financial crisis.
In this study, map volume recordings obtained using one stimulus per cranial site were larger than those obtained using five stimuli per cranial site.
The students of human sciences courses (except for one student of Mathematics) showed interest in musical initiation, and did not take Psychology courses approaching the topic of stimulus equivalence.
The present experiment was an exploratory study to investigate whether the duration of eye fixation (defined in terms of the time spent gazing a specific stimulus) is modulated by simultaneous or successive simple discrimination training procedures.
2 With you holding your dog on leash, have a helper present the stimulus at threshold distance X.
These choice-based stimulus preference assessments have been studied extensively with individuals with severe disabilities with several notable findings.
Although their boost to employment has now faded, the stimulus provided support when support was needed.
Once the stimulus project was completed, however, she had to let those workers go.