A string of government stimulus measures has helped ease the pain somewhat but is unlikely to haul the country out of recession anytime soon.
HONG KONG — A survey of manufacturing activity in China on Thursday provided more reassurance that the Chinese economy, buoyed by somewhat improved global trade and a string of government stimulus measures last year, has settled into a muted recovery.
China's mild re-acceleration has been helped by a gradual recovery in overseas demand for Chinese-made goods in recent months, as well as a string of economic stimulus measures announced by the government over the course of last year.
Improved overseas demand and a string of government-mandated stimulus measures have gradually propped up growth and dispelled fears of a hard landing in China.
As detailed in Methods and illustrated in Fig. 1A,B, each trial of the NRT consists of a string of several digits (stimulus string).
This task design presented the high win expectancy loss feedback as a single negative stimulus following a string of highly expected win stimuli.
WASHINGTON — After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week to cut the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, administration officials said.
After a string of headline-grabbing fiscal stimulus packages last year from countries including Britain, France and a more reticent Germany, Europe is taking a breather.
During the activity, however, if a stimulus or string of stimuli enter the automatic buffer that have high valence or violate expectations (e.g., the pattern of words is an atypical syntactical pattern or sequence of events), then this will trigger a saliency signal, which in turn would activate top-down processes.
As in other countries, government stimulus measures and a string of interest rate cuts — totaling 4.25 percentage points — in the wake of Lehman Brothers' implosion last year also helped prop up the economy.
