The habituation account merely assumes that passive experience of stimuli results in a psychological process that causes a reduction of responding to those stimuli.
and directs behaviour towards those stimuli – and in the opposite direction to aversive events.
Those stimuli that cause gastric acid secretion in particular, vagal nerve stimulation also promote the secretion of the pepsinogens.
"They react to stimuli literally without thinking," Macdonald writes, and a whole lot of those stimuli can provoke their hunting instinct: squeaky doors, passing bicycles, real pheasants, but also black-and-white drawings of them, Joan Sutherland on the radio.
This study provides evidence for a general effect of disgust on self-reported anxiety to stimuli regardless of the disgust-relevance or fear-relevance of those stimuli.
In our experiment, this effect would be manifest as a decrease in the correlation between the voxel responses evoked by a pair of probe stimuli (e.g., A1 and A2) when those stimuli are preceded by a matching adapting phase.
The researchers presented the overlapping streams at two different rhythms — two images per second and 1.5 images per second — allowing them to identify brain regions responding to those stimuli.
Some of the included soundclips were made by Pierre Ahad and Albert Bregman for their 1966 CD, Demonstrations of Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound, or were adapted from those stimuli.
Third, information-theoretic data analyses open up novel ways to search for those stimuli that are most efficient in driving a given neuron in terms of its firing rate or coding quality.
GNOSYS is created so as to be able to attend to stimuli, to conceptualise them, to learn their predicted reward value and reason about them so as to attain those stimuli in the environment with greatest predicted value.
This work proves that magnetoelectric Terfenol-D/poly vinylidene fluoride-co-Terfenol-D/poly vinylidenetes are able to provide mechanical and electrical stimuli to MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblast cells and that those stimuli can be remotely triggered by an applied magnetic field.
