stimuli

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Experiments using visual stimuli could help identify which brain regions are required for conscious perception.

From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 2026

But I love the answer that they gave Zosia to give: You can’t possibly take in all of the feelings and the stimuli that the whole world is having right now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

She had tried traditional therapy, as well as interventions like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, where a patient is asked to recall traumatic events while experiencing auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

As a movie lover who’s always hunting for new talent, new ideas and new stimuli, I used to view that as creative inertia.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The stimuli that set them off at the outset, building collectively instead of shifting things about, may be pheromones released when they reach committee size.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas