Sentence examples for sensitive to a stimulus from inspiring English sources

Sensitivity is used to assess the degree to which the (visual) system is sensitive to a stimulus parameter under study.

Dr. Schmelz called the response "a kind of learning process which makes the central nervous system more sensitive" to a stimulus that is repeated.

fMRI adaptation is a phenomenon whereby the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response in areas sensitive to a stimulus property, for example syntax, is reduced or enhanced when this stimulus property is repeated (Henson 2003; K Segaert, K Weber, FP de Lange, KM Petersson, P Hagoott, unpublished data).

To investigate whether the 3 clusters in the LIPC were in both tasks sensitive to a stimulus-based language conflict a series of ROI analyses were conducted to investigate whether the 3 regions showed larger responses for homographs than control words in both tasks.

We selected this protocol because unlike other methods of experimental pain induction thermal stimuli is sensitive to A-delta fiber and C-fiber mediated pain perception.

In other words, individuals highly sensitive to a given stimulus are good candidates for becoming specialized in tasks involving such a stimulus [9].

Nanomaterials sensitive to a single stimulus or multiple combinations of them have demonstrated their efficacy not only for cancer therapy, but also for the treatment of inflammations and infections.

We anticipated that following lingual capsaicin administration, primary and/or secondary hyperalgesia and allodynia would develop causing subjects to be more sensitive to a tactile stimulus.

They concluded that both scoliotic and degenerate human nucleus pulposus can respond to an exogenous proinflammatory stimulus by secreting increased amounts of IL-6, IL-8, and PGE2, but not TNF-alpha, and that degenerate disc tissue is more sensitive to a proinflammatory stimulus than its scoliotic counterpart.

There is a discussion of principal component analysis and a supplemental figure which shows that cells responsive to a female (male or predator) stimulus are generally sensitive to an independent stimulus from the same class, but the correlation appears to hover at less than 50% for male/female odors and lower for predator.

Here are reported the synthesis, characterization and in vitro evaluation of a three-stimuli-sensitive hollow nanocontainer consisting of three different shells, each one sensitive to a specific tumoral stimulus: in order pH, temperature and reducing environment.