Sentence examples for weak stimuli from inspiring English sources

They argued that stochastic resonance, which enhances the response of a nonlinear system to weak stimuli, acts to sensitize mechanoreceptors in the target skin area thereby making subthreshold stimuli detectable (Dhruv et al 2002).

For mechanical signals, noise serves to boost weak stimuli.

Whether such weak stimuli, applied acutely or chronically, can have beneficial or deleterious effects on brain function can only be determined by targeted recordings and additional behavioral measures.

Research has also shown that a lack of sleep makes you feel more threatened even by weak stimuli, less trusting, and more hostile and more aggressive.

Kandel showed that weak stimuli give rise to certain chemical changes in synapses; these changes are the basis for short-term memory, which lasts minutes to hours.

These behaviors include "normalization" or sublinear summation of responses to multiple stimuli that becomes linear for weak stimuli and becomes "winner-take-all" for stimuli of strongly unequal strength; and surround suppression that becomes surround facilitation for a weak center stimulus.

A weak stimulus together with caution on other fronts, including mortgage relief, led to a weak economy in 2010.

"We have reason to believe that even a seemingly weak stimulus, like a story of moral goodness, can evoke moral elevation responses in nonexperimental settings," write the authors.

As expected, given the weak stimulus, the distribution of confidence ratings for correct responses was dominated (88%) by low confidence R1 and R2 responses (Fig. 2b).

Prepulse inhibition (PPI), also termed as startle reduction or reflex modification, is a phenomenon in which a weak stimulus (Prepulse) can suppress the startle response to a subsequent stronger startle stimulus (pulse).

I see the following scenario: a weak stimulus plan, perhaps even weaker than what we're talking about now, is crafted to win those extra GOP votes.