Stimulus
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So, the question, really, we have to ask is: how do those two vertical lines in that first stimulus, how do they change in the next moment were I moving towards the center, that all those optical lines are suggesting that I'm moving.
So when you have a
stimulus
like this, well, your brain has no problem, there's just two vertical lines and no cues that there'll be a change in the next moment, so just render it as it is.
But what you have now are the cues that, from your brain's point of view, you have the
stimulus
on your eyes, like, "Oh, these things are moving."
Our first physiological hypothesis states that contagious yawning is triggered by a specific stimulus, an initial yawn.
How can different people be subjected to the exact same painful
stimulus
and yet experience the pain so differently?
And to give you a sense of the
stimulus
we are using, let me play 20 seconds from a story that we used, told by a very talented storyteller, Jim O'Grady.
GC: I totally agree with that, but I think that when he was proposing a huge government program last night that we used to call the bad s-word, "stimulus," I find it completely ironic.
There's several definitions of what a punishment is, but one definition, the most popular, is: a punishment is a
stimulus
that reduces the immediately preceding behavior, such that it's less likely to occur in the future.
These studies compare patterns of neural activation when someone is and isn’t conscious of a sensory stimulus, like an image.
And further
stimulus
came with the deregulation of the cable television industry, and the re-regulation of the cable television industry.
So, if these guys are sleeping, you need a stronger intensity
stimulus
to get them to react than when they're awake.
Chocolate cake is a supernormal
stimulus.
What we see with, say, chocolate cake is it’s a supernormal
stimulus
to tweak our design wiring.
That can cause a recession if people have become too reliant on cheap debt and government
stimulus.
Now we're running a
stimulus
package.
It's called the trillion-dollar
stimulus
package.
And then we do the OPEC
stimulus
package also known as 200 dollars a barrel.
So he comes over to this country, and he says, "We need a big fiscal stimulus."
Now, synesthesia is the experience of a
stimulus
in once sense organ in another sense organ as well, such as colored hearing.
The question becomes: Do you stay for the long haul and have the day-to-day routine become part of a richer tapestry, or do you leave to find fresher new
stimulus
each time the honeymoon phase is over?
It's a movie of such unparalleled tedium that to pronounce its name may drive people to enter a monastic order in search of
stimulus.
It's amazing that this first 1950s Hercules film was the
stimulus
that led to bazillions of Hercules and Maciste films over the next 15 years.
The alternative is to rely on fiscal stimulus, achieved by cutting taxes or increasing spending.
But with annual budget deficits of $1 trillion and government debt heading toward 100% of GDP, a
stimulus
package would be politically difficult to enact.
The context this time was a desire to achieve expectations of greater monetary stimulus, in order to facilitate recovery from the great recession of 2008-2009.
It is possible, of course, that the United States will solve its political problems and finally adopt the
stimulus
measures that it needs to bring down unemployment to 6% or 7% (the pre-crisis level of 4% or 5% is too much to hope for).
But, while
stimulus
policies were mostly effective in dealing with the immediate crisis, they did not address the long-term issues that impede growth.
But achieving such
stimulus
via negative interest rates may be impossible.
Economic recovery is all about jobs, not output, and politicians are willing to push for economic stimulus, both fiscal (tax cuts or government spending) and monetary (lower short-term interest rates), until jobs start reappearing.
Much of what is enacted as
stimulus
has little immediate effect on job creation, but does have an adverse long-term effect on government finances.
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