These also improved memory and learning, similar to improvements made by environmental stimulation.

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Whatever way the brain is affected by continuous stimulation, consumers remain hungry for data, and graphical representation is the fastest way of transmitting it.

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They controlled for the mother's education and income, and observed the stimulation provided by the child's home environment.

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Among the more promising is Cyberonics' vagus-nerve stimulation approach, pioneered by Jacob Zabara, its scientific founder who's a retired Temple University physiologist.

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The growth of the industrial base in China is actively supported by government agencies in addition to stimulation of an entrepreneurial environment.

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Divergence is the stimulation of new thinking by diversifying and exploring.

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One new technique being used by some neuroeconomists is transcranial magnetic stimulation, in which a coil held next to the head issues a low-level magnetic pulse that temporarily disrupts activity in a certain part of the brain, to see if that changes the subject's preferences for example, for a particular food and how much he is willing to pay for it.

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But XTO, with a smaller capital structure than the supermajors', is happy to invest in the neglected fields, using new techniques of 3-D imaging, horizontal drilling and so-called fracture stimulation--blowing open rock formations by injecting mudlike fluids down wells to get at big methane reservoirs.

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The notion that deep-brain stimulation may have benefits for memory was prompted in part by serendipity.

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