He doesn't respond to the stimulus.

He fails to respond to any normal stimulation.

But oftentimes they'll cite distractions.

There are many distractions and detractors to the peace process.

But oftentimes they'll cite distractions

You are likely to have thoughts competing for your attention.

And the second problem that we face is not just competition, but it's distraction.

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We love things like plot twists and red herrings and surprise endings.

We think that a permanent, substantive dialogue with the leadership of the Islamic State of Afghanistan will help us remove some other well known irritants.

So what are these interruptions that happen at the office that don't happen at other places?

So what are the interruptions that happen at the office but not at other places?

She uses mainly distraction techniques and plays a side role, instead of a role that is directly useful to the Sailor Soldiers.

Shape changing molecules An active area of research is in molecules that can change their shape, as well as other properties, in response to external stimuli.

The apple represents the lure and temptation of the external sensory world, distracting us from the knowledge of the inner world, the tree of knowledge within.

So now all of these distractions that worked against training now become rewards that work for training.

Remember, the basis of the behaviorist approach was not to focus on understanding people's subjective mental states but to watch their external responses to stimuli.

You shouldn't have to be convinced that these overrated corporate popularity contests that some call elections are distractions that achieve nothing.

Dr. Ivan Pavlov's early 20th century research, in which he demonstrated that we can alter what stimuli elicit a reflective response in canines.

Reaction time tests involve little thinking, and merely ask people to respond as fast as they can to simple stimuli.

Despite the violence and the dilatory tactics employed by the military leaders in Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda is confident that the forces of good will, decency and democracy will prevail.

I'm optimistic, because I believe we have the capacity, at moments of great challenge, to set aside the causes of distraction and rise to the challenge that history is presenting to us.

Action can mean either a basic action (one that has a meaning) or an advanced social action, which not only has a meaning but is directed at other actors and causes action (or, perhaps, inaction ).

It is through studies of the way the brain learns about stimuli, such as the sounds that precede danger, that our systems for learning about fear, and memory as a whole, have been elucidated through rat studies.

One final point I'm optimistic, because I believe we have the capacity, at moments of great challenge, to set aside the causes of distraction and rise to the challenge that history is presenting to us.

In a curious way, nuclear weapons also are crucial to Musharraf s survival, for they create conditions that distract Pakistan s highly ideological army from its objective of war with India.

Probably born to be a teacher (no matter how much his students disagree), his greatest skill is the ability to ignore irrelevant things completely (no matter how much anyone who wishes he'd remember their names disagrees).

But those fundamental experiments aren't necessarily wrong and there is something to the notion that at least in certain cases, people will respond to stimuli and people will learn to make associations between those two things.

And as we'll see, as we get into the next section, there's some real danger of going down this behavioral path of focusing entirely on how people respond to stimuli that we put in front of them.

Because in other places, you can have interruptions, like, you can have the TV, or you could go for a walk, or there's a fridge downstairs, or you've got your own couch, or whatever you want to do.

Because in other places, you can have interruptions like the TV, or you could go for a walk, or there's a fridge downstairs, or you've got your own couch, or whatever you want to do.

And for the purposes of this talk, I wanted to isolate just a part of a project that's even a part of a project that touches a little bit on this theme of architectural special effects, and it happens to be our current obsession, and it plays a little bit with the purging and adding of distraction.