Sentence examples for previously neutral from inspiring English sources

By touching something we find disgusting, a previously neutral or even well-liked item can acquire — permanently — its properties of grossness.

Mr. Maraniss also describes the event as a turning point, with previously neutral students now radicalized in their antiwar, anti-authority positions.

It also promotes fear conditioning, a form of learning in which previously neutral stimuli in the environment — sights, sounds and smells, for example — become linked with a trauma.

Further, the capacity of [PSI+] to convert previously neutral genetic variation to a non-neutral state may facilitate the evolution of new traits.

After this first association has been learned, reward contingency are inverted, so that the previously neutral stimulus is now rewarded, while the previously rewarded stimulus is not.

The loss can be compounded by reminders of the person who is no longer there, and it is common for previously neutral objects and locations to begin to hold extraordinary power.

Memory retrieval of previously learned neutral and emotional words was tested after cortisol or placebo application.

But on this record, the failure to report the three arrests occurring from 10 to 11 years previously is neutral.

Come the next day, though, everyone had read about his family and developed affection for someone they'd previously been neutral about.

And when that happened, Albert came to associate what had previously been neutral, the white rabbit, with a feeling of fear.

In contrast, sleep and wake did not differ significantly for any of the other conditions (all t 69) < 1.5, P > 0.16), indicating that sleep's effect on emotional ratings was primarily the reduction of positive affect to previously unseen neutral items.