stimuli
Americannoun
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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
"A similar mechanism could underlie individual differences in responses to other rewarding stimuli," says author and neuroscientist Josep Marco-Pallarés of the University of Barcelona.
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026
But I love the answer that they gave Zosia to give: You can’t possibly take in all of the feelings and the stimuli that the whole world is having right now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 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
We, as human beings, are not simply organisms or animals responding to stimuli.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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