In priming research, a stimulus (the "prime") is briefly displayed, followed by a mask that hides it, and then a second stimulus (the "target") is displayed.
In the target indicator condition, which replicated previous research, that stimulus occurred uniquely at the actual location of the movement target for the pointing responses, and thus might have been expected to draw attention to that location.
This article will mainly refer to research measuring stimulus-evoked brain activity, although oscillatory activity also taps into prediction and attention (e.g. Arnal & Giraud, 2012).
In previous research, central stimuli like this have been associated with effects of endogenous but not of exogenous attention (Umiltà, 2000).
The importance of WHR may be investigated in future research with stimuli similar to those presently used in a more direct way (e.g., raters may evaluate attractiveness of individually seen silhouettes).
Furthermore, it differed from presentation of the simple reward-predictive stimuli (A+ or B+), which resulted in a pattern of activation within a different subregion of orbitofrontal cortex (medial orbitofrontal), as well as insular cortex, consistent with previous research examining stimulus-reward response-related learning (27,35,42,43).
And Rockey predicted that NIH would end up giving small businesses about $200 million of its stimulus research funds—roughly what the set-aside would have accomplished even without a mandate to do so.
If you do some research, just put "stimulus package results for small business" into the Google engine on the internet, you will see thousands of articles written over the past three years, that will show you that I was not alone in the adverse effect of this public policy change.
Existing research suggests that stimulus duration accuracies are reasonably good.
In addition, much of the prior research using verbal stimuli resulted in effective creativity evaluation, however assessment of figural stimuli is limited when comparing expert and non-expert assessments of creativity (Baer et al. 2004; Kaufman et al. 2009).
