Sentence examples for striking experiments from inspiring English sources

This piece and "Near the Terrace" at the American Dance Festival (both striking experiments in stillness and surreal imagery) made him a choreographer to watch.

For me one of the most striking experiments in AI is the brainchild of the director of the Sony lab in Paris, Luc Steels.

In the decades that followed, the experiments that first she and then her student Dr Corkin conducted with H.M. produced a more complex picture.One of the most striking experiments had H.M. tracing a star between two parallel lines, when he could see his drawing hand only in a mirror.

One of the most striking experiments marshaled in favor of situationism was conducted in a theological seminary, where students were set up to encounter a person slumped in an alleyway.

In one striking experiment, Molaison was asked repeatedly to trace a star in an apparatus that insured that he could see the figure and his hand only in a mirror.

The importance of mind over stomach was demonstrated in 1998 in a striking experiment with two men whose mental functions were normal except for a severe form of amnesia.

The book covers everything from the agency's origins 100 years ago as a shoestring outfit hunting German spies to the duping of the Nazis during the second world war, the scandals and successes of the intrigues against the Soviet Union and, latterly, the counter-terrorist campaigns first against the IRA and then against jihadist suicide-bombers.It is a striking experiment in openness.

The most striking such experiments were performed last year by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard University, Dr. Stephen E. Harris of Stanford University and their colleagues.

The potential benefits could be striking if such experiments succeed.

Even more striking, in several experiments, researchers from McMaster University in Canada gave estrogen to male athletes and then had them complete strenuous bicycling sessions.

But a striking series of experiments on change blindness reminded McNerney of what he calls "the Sartre Fallacy": assuming the empirical rigor of cognitive science would liberate him from the woolly projections of the existentialists, McNerney discovered that concepts like "confirmation bias" merely introduced another level of bias.