stimuli

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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

He adds: "In contrast, cold detection inside the body appears to depend on different sensory circuits and molecular receptors, reflecting its deeper physiological role in internal regulation and responses to environmental stimuli."

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 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

In fact, it had a fairly developed brain, but that brain was tuned primarily to the reception of orders via positronic field, and its reaction to independent stimuli was rather fumbling.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov