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stimulation

[stim-yuh-ley-shuhn] / ˌstɪm jəˈleɪ ʃən /


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Once they understood why they found certain situations challenging, it was easier to give themselves permission for things like rest and breaks from sensory stimulation.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 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

Researchers now plan to investigate more directly how deep brain stimulation causes changes within brain networks.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

She argued that once a threshold of basic safety, nutrition, love, and stimulation was met, the particular details of the style had a very small effect on a child’s personality or intelligence.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

So Vincent looks for connection and stimulation elsewhere.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Scientists demonstrated that the jellies could acquire the ability to avoid obstacles through associative learning, a process through which organisms form mental connections between sensory stimulations and behaviors.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 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

When vitality is at its height in the waking period of a young child, its environment is a succession of stimulations to activity.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman




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