Alternatively, the more appealing stimulus material of landscape scenes compared to letters [Tamm et al., 2006], arrows [Rubia et al., 2007], or sine tones [Stevens et al., 2007] as well as the required button press for every picture could have improved the performance of participants with ADHD.
Biden accused Ryan of hypocrisy for appealing for federal stimulus funds from programmes he now ridicules as ineffective.
If female genital response (and thus vaginal lubrication) is indeed reflexively activated, one would expect genital responses to be observed even when women are exposed to nonpreferred sexual stimuli (i.e., sexual stimuli that they do not find subjectively appealing), and under conditions where sexual stimuli are presented subliminally.
Although there were no significant effects of stimulus condition on average aesthetic ratings, there was a statistically significant tendency for subjects to use a binary rating strategy in abnormal conditions, i.e. rate stimuli as either appealing (20.7%) or unappealing (17%), whereas normal conditions received a significantly higher ratio of neutral response (22.5%).
President Obama continues to press our European allies to commit to more stimulus spending, even appealing directly to the public in an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune earlier this week.
In his case, that meant disregarding the "permission" needed from European or Gulf film funds to greenlight a film, reframing Theeb in part as a stimulus to deprived communities, and appealing to private equity for finance.
To determine the effects of breakfast on neural activity associated with food motivation, a repeated-measures ANOVA was performed on the brain activation maps within the Brain Voyager software with the use of stimulus [food (ie, appetizing and appealing) compared with nonfood (ie, animal, nonappetizing but appealing] × breakfast (BS compared with NP; BS compared with HP) comparisons.
Aides said he sought votes everywhere, at one point asking Mr. Lieberman to push Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential candidate, to support the Democrats' stimulus plan as a way of appealing to independent voters.
Effective "cool" strategies involve distraction and restructuring the perception of the tempting stimulus to make it seem less appealing.
However, we feel that the concept of using illusory stimuli to determine the absence of function is appealing and novel.
