Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week will certainly be a "revery of long days and nights." From placement tests to shopping for futons, the next seven or so days of your life will spill over with activities and general stimuli. It will be one of the few times when groups of Harvard students simply sit around talking because of arbitrary rooming assignments made by the HDO. Watch the improbable friendships form in the vacuum of a larger social structure. And then watch some of them dissolve when the participants and classmates more suitable to their coeds...
...fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules are minicomputers that can respond to and analyze stimuli without interacting with the brain...
...research mainly relies on laboratory observation rather than parental reports, Arcus said. Infants were presented with unfamiliar stimuli and their reactions were recorded to mark any signs of fear...
Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of Neurobiology, and Galaburda, chief of behavioral neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, have developed a way of diagnosing dyslexia through measuring the brain's response to certain visual stimuli. By measuring the speed of different brain waves, known as "evoked potentials," they can detect patterns characteristic of dyslexia...
There is no choice in behavior; what we think of as morality depends merely on correctly timed exposure to the right stimuli. TV becomes the latest in a litany of lame excuses for sociopathic behavior...