stimulation
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"If caffeine helps a person function during the day while simultaneously worsening the quality of nighttime recovery, a vicious circle may develop: greater fatigue, greater need for stimulation, and poorer sleep," says Prof. Kurpas.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The friends are passingly concerned that they’ve outsourced too much of their mental stimulation to the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The industry uses the terms “enhanced recovery” and “well stimulation techniques” to describe these controversial methods to extend the life of an oil well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Brain imaging studies have helped identify the locations where stimulation appears to work most effectively, while electrophysiological research has measured the frequencies of the electrical signals involved.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters of recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Electrical stimulations are important first steps towards the team's bigger goal of triggering learning in the biocomputer's neurons so they can eventually adapt to perform tasks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
It turned out that both were equally as sensitive to the strong stimulations.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
During both states of consciousness, the animals experienced specific stimulations: two audio tones, including one on its own and another paired with a puff of air on the face.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023
Knowing where to direct brain stimulations also does not resolve the question of what frequency to use, scientists said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
If perception is just the translation of future possible stimulations into present fact, there is assuredly no justification for the notion that perception distorts the facts or that discrepancies among different perceptions prove their "subjectivity."
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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