Sentences with phrase «sets of stimuli»

He was a comedy beast on «Saturday Night Live» because of this, and in his Wayne's World and Austin Powers films, their structures lent sufficiently to constantly evolving scenarios that gave the comedian just enough breathing room to explore different characters and new sets of stimuli to play off.

This practice will introduce him to new sets of stimuli to interact with.

«To get a good picture of how stimulus information is being conveyed in these afferent populations, you have to look at a diverse set of stimuli that spans the range of what you might feel in everyday tactile experience,» he said.

For the study, researchers put EEG equipment into the backpacks of study participants and had them identify changes in a set of stimuli while riding a bike inside, and then had them perform the exact same experiment outside.

But after you've inevitably reached a plateau, target your muscles with a new set of stimuli to ensure further expansion.

With virtual reality, you're essentially hacking the visual - audio system of your brain and feeding it a set of stimuli that's close enough to the stimuli it expects that it sees it as truth.

Infants were exposed to each set of stimuli for three presentation durations.

Not exact matches

«These costs need to be set against concerns that prolonged monetary policy stimulus may result in an excessive buildup of private sector vulnerabilities,» Lane said.

We then examined these groups» abilities on cognitive control dimensions that could indicate a breadth - bias in cognitive control at different control loci: the allocation of attention to environmental stimuli and their entry into working memory, the holding and manipulation of stimulus and task set representations in working memory, and the control of responses to stimuli and tasks.

I think you need to add to this the need to devise a set of «recession - ready», targeted job - creation programs that can create jobs at a considerably lower cost per job than is true of overall fiscal stimulus.

But these costs need to be set against concerns that prolonged monetary policy stimulus may result in an excessive buildup of private sector vulnerabilities.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

Half of the Fed's powerful rate - setting committee could leave as the withdrawal of its stimulus program looms.

Eight times per year, the Federal Open Market Committee — the FOMC — meets to set the path of monetary stimulus over the next six to seven weeks.

OPEC and its allies look set to keep their deal on cutting oil supplies for the rest of 2018, five sources familiar with the issue said, although some producers are starting to worry that high prices may be giving too much stimulus to rival output.

Mr. Flaherty rejected demands for new stimulus in the short term, arguing that «to secure the recovery in an uncertain world» the government should «stay the course» and implement Phase II of the Canada's Economic Action Plan, as set out in the 2011 Budget.

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce a new economic stimulus package of about 2 trillion yen (about 17.8 US dollars) this year, according to local media reports in Japan.

Big news in politics and the economy is also expected out of Japan today, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to hold a press conference on the election and a stimulus package.

That said, there is currently little sign of any acceleration in activity or inflation, and any potential stimulus from the Trump administration still seems some way off, so the trend growth rate of around 2 % looks set to continue in the near term.

The first one basically being that you know, as we have seen over the past two years, even with the emergency monetary stimulus that they're able to grow their balance sheet, which creates excess reserves into the system and in a variety ways and that means, they are purchasing bonds, purchasing mortgages, purchasing treasuries, which increases the amount of monetary supply — the money available to help all set the conditions that they are trying to counterbalance.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to keep its trend - setting interest rate at record lows, as policymakers continue to rely on record stimulus to keep the economy humming.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to keep its trend - setting interest rate at record lows, as policymakers continue to rely on record stimulus to keep...

Some of these feelings, given the necessary setting and stimuli, are capable of being brought into awareness.

What is so exciting about this is, if love is created from a set of physical actions and stimulus through touch leading to the release of hormones, that gives us all the power to create love.

Government has also set aside a stimulus package of $ 100million to revive distressed but strategic and viable Ghanaian industries.

That's grossly overstated - by the time the sun set there were roving gangs of drunk men who were about as interested in the rights and wrongs of Brown's fiscal stimulus as I am in knitting jumpers.

Set against this skyscraper of debt, how can a «fiscal stimulus» of # 20 billion make a scrap of difference.

A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis: brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).

The program's modest scale — less than 1 % of NIH's approximately $ 10 billion in stimulus funds — reflects the desire to establish a realistic number of sustainable new faculty positions rather than set off a «feeding frenzy,» Berg says.

Dr. Waxman says editors recommended the article because «outside experts called the work an interesting set of experiments that provides insights into how high pH is detected as a repellent stimulus by the sensory system.»

The key here is to set up a controlled situation where animals encounter an ambiguous stimulus — think of it as a nonverbal version of the Emily statement.

These stimuli can include the color and shape of the pill, patient and provider characteristics and the healthcare setting.

Although the presence of these primitives suggests that the flies might be reacting to the stimulus based on some kind of emotion, the researchers are quick to point out that this new information does not prove — nor did it set out to establish — that flies can experience fear, or happiness, or anger, or any other feelings.

The team captured video of five social species — ants, fish, frogs, chickens, and humans — under three sets of conditions — natural motion, and the presence of one and two stimuli — over 10 days.

Early evolutionary psychologists have often favored something like a «jukebox» model of the brain, in which it contains any number of evolved, preprogrammed behaviors waiting to be set off by various stimuli, as if at the touch of a button.

Better understanding of these factors is a major area of interest in the lab, with some of the specific projects including tissue - specificity of cis - regulatory variants in the GTEx data set, immune response eQTLs where genetic variants contribute to inter-individual response to immunological stimuli, and haplotypic epistasis between regulatory and coding variants.

In a typical fMRI data set acquired during resting - state, BOLD (blood - oxygen level - dependent) signals often exhibit strong correlations between distant brain areas despite a lack of external stimuli or a cognitive engagement [1]--[3].

Since the key factors in muscle growth are the duration of the stimulus and the amount of tension, it's generally accepted that maximizing muscle growth requires training with sets that last in the range of 30 to 60 seconds.

If you prefer lifting heavy weights for low reps, try reducing the weight and increasing the number of sets and reps; and if you're used to high training volume in the form of high reps and low weights, switch it up and try working with heavier weights for very low reps. Just like with the cardio sessions, the idea is to make your body work as hard as possible to adapt to the new stimulus.

Yoga's natural setting of dim lights, soft music, smooth mats, and «inside» voices creates a comforting environment largely protected from unknown or aggressive stimuli in which calming down becomes enjoyable.

But through a whole load of trial and error, the classic bodybuilders of old discovered that the only way to sculpt a muscular physique (without taking steroids), is to make good use of the Stimulus Adaptation Principle, where you work out just long enough to set the stimulus for transformation in yoStimulus Adaptation Principle, where you work out just long enough to set the stimulus for transformation in yostimulus for transformation in your body.

It has long been trusted by gym goers and bodybuilders who want to gain muscle weight because it allows you to get more reps on sets of strength training, thereby increasing the stimulus to your muscles.

We don't need to use weighted movements here - we can easily get a similar stimulus through higher volume, unweighted sets of pull - ups, dips, and handstand push - ups.

But that slightly enhanced training stimulus comes at a cost — the fatigue it generates will likely limit the ability to perform additional sets, which of course will limit your total volume.

«By doing this, you're recruiting more muscle fibers than you will in your working sets of say 8 - 10 reps, so you can usually handle that small amount of extra weight that'll produce stimulus and growth.»

In this case MercurySteam had such a great understanding of what is fundamentally Metroid that they were able to synthesize their experiences seamlessly, bringing fresh stimuli, a fresh perspective and a different set of sensibilities.

The Obama administration has set a goal of turning around 5,000 failing schools in the next five years, supported by an expected $ 3 billion in stimulus funds and $ 2 billion in the 2009 and 2010 budgets.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into long - term reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

In particular pupils will be expected to respond to a stimuli, experimenting with the use of symbolic and representational movements, explore differing types of travelling and transitional pathways with a Cyber theme along with performance skills within their set motifs.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into lasting reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.