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fixations
noun
Plural of fixation
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Long a critic of Japan's conservatism and fatalism, he has also been moulded by Japan's post-war consumerism, imagery and fixations.
He does however admit to fixations with class, sexuality and other social issues.In the museum's gift shop, many of the objects for sale pendants, key chains, mugs, tote bags, tapestry kits and a silk scarf depicting the artist's personal map of the museum were designed by Mr Perry.
To judge from folk songs, people all over the world share two fixations: unrequited love and sex.
I will scrap the ID-cards scheme and other costly fixations.
Two abiding fixations were fear of Germany's encirclement and a conviction that only smug, malevolent Britain stood in the way of German hegemony in Europe.Yet it was the Kaiser's own interventions that brought those things about.
Between saccades, the eyes are held stationary in fixations.
At first sight the function of saccades and fixations appears to be to move the fovea from one interesting point in the scene to another.
In the psychiatric tradition, frustration heightens suggestibility, generates fantasy, brings about regressions and fixations, and intensifies drives toward wish fulfillment so that normal inhibitions are overcome.
Recording of the infants' visual fixations as their eyes move indicates them to have reliable preference for one paired stimulus over another, giving evidence of visual discrimination.
One of Arreola's fixations was the absurdity of religious belief and what he denounced as God's unequal relationship to humankind.
During fixations the eyes are stabilized against movements of the head and body by two reflexes, the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and the optokinetic reflex (OKR).
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