Sentence examples for evoke a brief from inspiring English sources

The chase sequences were designed to evoke a brief sense of tension and fright for the player, although the developers did not want to prolong the tension with the constant presence of monsters, and were concerned that this would become overwhelming and spoil the player's immersion in the game and interest in the story.

Electrophysiological properties of putative dopamine (DA) neurons in the VTA have been extensively studied in previous studies, showing that unexpected reward (e.g., food, juice) and reward cues (conditioned stimuli) evoke a brief burst activity of the DA neurons [6] [9].

We chose to evoke a brief postsynaptic subthreshold depolarizations (30 ms) to mimic corticostriatal subthreshold summation of EPSPs induced by cortical or thalamic activity (as observed in in vivo studies [24] [26]) paired with a presynaptic cortical stimulation.

They have the regular structure of an invocation: the attention of the god is evoked; a brief account of some of his feats is given, to hold his attention; and an exhortation for his help concludes the hymn.

They evoke a time, vanishingly brief, when travelers could describe trans-Atlantic voyages with dreamy wistfulness, in a vessel that itself scaled the heights of poetry -- like a fabulous silvery fish, floating quietly in the ocean of air," its builder once said.

It is possible that the overall time was too brief to evoke a strong response to chewing.

Nicotine causes nAChR desensitization, which can be quantified by comparing the ratio of [DA]o evoked by a brief train of five pulses at 100 Hz to single-pulse-evoked [DA]o (5 p:1 p ratio) as an index of nAChR activation/desensitization30,31.

EPSCs were evoked by a brief 2 ms somatic depolarization to 0 mV.

Autapse recordings were evoked using a brief voltage step from Vh = −70 to +60 mV (2 4 ms) followed by a return to −20 mV.

To approach this issue, we compared the respiratory component of the orienting reflex evoked by a brief auditory stimulus in saline- and LM22A-4-treated 6- to 8-week-old Wt and Null mice.

Contractions were evoked by a brief (4 min) application of muscarinic agonist, carbachol, or by electrical field stimulation (EFS; ref. 29) from a constant-current source, with a train of pulses for 4 s (frequency 8 Hz, pulse width 0.1 ms for selective nerve stimulation, or pulse width 1 ms for direct muscle stimulation); trains were applied every 90 s.