In physiology, a stimulus is a detectable change in the physical or chemical structure of an organism's internal or external environment. The ability of...

up stimulus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stimulus is something that causes a physiological response. It may refer to: Stimulation Stimulus (physiology)...

In physiology, transduction is the translation of arriving stimulus into an action potential by a sensory receptor. It begins when stimulus changes the...

which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye, a potential rival) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical...

Tonic in physiology refers to a physiological response which is slow and may be graded. This term is typically used in opposition to a fast response. For...

amount of time it takes for an excitable membrane to be ready for a second stimulus once it returns to its resting state following an excitation. It most commonly...

In physiology, the all-or-none law (sometimes the all-or-none principle or all-or-nothing law) is the principle that if a single nerve fibre is stimulated...

evaluation of a stimulus, categorization of a stimulus as sexual, and an affective response. The combination of cognitive and physiological states elicits...

unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus. With repeated presentations of both the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned...

Other drugs maybe contained for different medical emergencies. Stimulus (physiology), a detectable change in the internal or external environment Stimulation...

The stimulus–response model is a conceptual framework in psychology that describes how individuals respond to external stimuli. According to this model...

external environment - physiological, emotional (affective) and behavioural responses. A simple stimulus-organism-response model Stimulus (physical environment)...

proximal stimulus. These neural signals are then transmitted to the brain and processed. The resulting mental re-creation of the distal stimulus is the...

unique and different pattern of physiological arousal and emotional behaviour in reaction due to an exciting stimulus. The theory has been criticized...

experiencing the original stimulus. The remainder of this article refers to physiological afterimages. A common physiological afterimage is the dim area...

Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Plant physiologists study fundamental processes...

function of many cells, communication between cells, and the overall physiology of an organism. Most cells in higher organisms maintain an internal environment...

Irritation, in biology and physiology, is a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage. A stimulus or agent which induces...

which a non-reinforced response to a stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. For example, organisms may habituate...

immediately following a stimulus during which further stimulation has no effect. It may specifically refer to: Refractory period (physiology), recovery time of...

to the second stimulus. The individual has not reached an excitatory threshold before exposure to the second stimulus. In physiological arousal, the excitation-transfer...

Stimulate means to act as a stimulus to; stimulus means something that rouses the recipient to activity; stimuli is the plural of stimulus. A particular use of...

of events and processes required for an organism to receive a painful stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal...

a stimulus. Taxes are classified based on the type of stimulus, and on whether the organism's response is to move towards or away from the stimulus. If...

Stimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality...

resolves once the noxious stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but it may persist despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the...

future behavior, typically in the presence of a particular antecedent stimulus. For example, a rat can be trained to push a lever to receive food whenever...

Stimulus filtering occurs when an animal's nervous system fails to respond to stimuli that would otherwise cause a reaction to occur. The nervous system...

from the sarcoplasmic reticulum of muscle fibers, in response to the cold stimulus. The calcium ions trigger powerful muscle contraction aided by ATP molecules...

following sections. A stimulus response function or stimulus response curve is defined more broadly as the response from any type of stimulus, not limited to...