Sentence examples for meaningful stimulus from inspiring English sources

Congress, distracted by the Republican agenda to cut taxes on the very rich, has so far failed to provide an equally meaningful stimulus.

To provide a meaningful stimulus to today's economy, Washington must concede that we can afford neither tax cuts nor new spending programs, but there's little political appetite to do that.

It was pretty much expected, so a lot of investors are looking for the Chinese government to roll out some meaningful stimulus on infrastructure or urbanisation themes," said Jackson Wong of Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong.

Yet Mr. Krugman writes on, month after month, trying to explain the obvious: that governmental belt-tightening — the failure to spend more on meaningful stimulus programs and infrastructure projects — is precisely the wrong thing to do at a time when there is widespread unemployment, a mountain of private debt and a mortgage foreclosure crisis.

Thus, a behaviorally meaningful stimulus sequence, consisting of only 40 patterned stimuli, leads to changes in synaptic effectiveness lasting one or more days in a neural pathway involved in short-term habituation of this reflex.

Accordingly, attention dwells on the initial object to inform the guidance of behavior [16], but tapers off once the potentially meaningful stimulus has been processed.

This demonstrates that the feature-based model of the semantic system is useful in describing the neural representation of meaningful stimuli.

To start testing whether antipsychotics act by reducing abnormal semantic activations we focused on the N400 event-related brain potential, which is elicited by meaningful stimuli, such as words, and whose distribution on the scalp is known to depend on the semantic category of these stimuli.

Two recent studies suggest that interindividual differences in dream recall frequency might be related to different levels of sensitivity to auditory stimuli, with meaningful stimuli inducing more complex cognitive processing and heightened reactivity in participants with high as compared to participants with low dream recall frequency (Eichenlaub et al. 2013; Ruby et al. 2013).

The salience network "usually responds to meaningful stimuli, such as loud noises in the environment, or thoughts that are very meaningful to a particular individual," said Uddin.

The results suggest that meaningful, stimulus-specific processing occurs even in regions that display a strong negative BOLD response.