stimuli

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Gallio and his team found that a key sensory protein involved in detecting harmful stimuli is much less responsive in snow flies than in other insects.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

The ultralow rates, along with other government stimuli and zero-commission trades, kindled a new generation’s interest in the markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

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 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 learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain”; to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov