"Prepulse" refers to an action or stimulus that occurs prior to a main event or action. It can be something that prepares or sets the stage for the main event by a small push or influence. Full definition
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One striking example, Meyer says, was a neurological test called prepulse inhibition (PPI) in which animals are startled by an unexpected noise such as an air horn. (sciencemag.org)
It is called prepulse inhibition; the soft pulse inhibits the reaction to the louder one. (scientificamerican.com)
A subset of participants were scanned on a 1.5 T General Electric MRI unit (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA), using an imaging protocol including a 3D T1 - weighted fast RF gradient recalled acquisition in steady state with an inversion recovery prepulse. (journals.plos.org)