stimuli

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They also had delayed responses to visual stimuli, pointing to slower visual processing and reduced brain signaling efficiency.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

"A similar mechanism could underlie individual differences in responses to other rewarding stimuli," says author and neuroscientist Josep Marco-Pallarés of the University of Barcelona.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

Set aside all the academic debates about how many words a young child should hear; parents’ job is to expose their kids to stimuli that expand their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 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

He introduced a range of different demands and stimuli, asking lab participants to respond with the left hand, or the right, and to discern among and between colors, words, sounds.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel