A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits...

of these attributes are called supernormal stimuli. A supernormal stimulus leads to an exaggerated response. Supernormal stimuli are more effective at...

takes its title from Nikolaas Tinbergen's concept in ethology of the supernormal stimulus, the phenomena by which insects, birds, and fish in his experiments...

what he termed the supernormal stimulus. This was the concept that one could build an artificial object which was a stronger stimulus or releaser for an...

by Tinbergen on the egg-retrieval behaviour and the effects of a "supernormal stimulus" on the behaviour of graylag geese. One investigation of this kind...

A 2019 eye tracking study, by showing that contrapposto acts as supernormal stimulus and increases perceived attractiveness, has provided evidence and...

Hedonic hunger Junk food Obesity and the environment Palatability Supernormal stimulus Fazzino, Tera L.; Rohde, Kaitlyn; Sullivan, Debra K. (2019-11-01)...

loss of "appetite" for romantic-sexual interaction Supernormal stimulus – a form of non-sexual stimulus, as opposed to libido Timeline of asexual history...

Martini, passingly mentioning NoFap, speak of pornography as a "supernormal stimulus" but use the model of compulsion rather than addiction. Addiction...

chosen to abstain from the material) speak of pornography as a "supernormal stimulus" but use the model of compulsion rather than addiction. A number...

herring gulls as his model system. This led to the concept of the supernormal stimulus. Tinbergen is also well known for his four questions that he believed...

"The Red Gape of the Nestling Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is not a supernormal stimulus for three common hosts". Behaviour. 136 (9): 759–777. doi:10.1163/156853999501559...

For instance, stickleback fish treat a pear-shape as a sex bomb (a supernormal stimulus). Gulls' hard-wired instincts make them reach over and roll back...

response to a certain stimulus. Natural selection can leave animals behaving in detrimental ways when they encounter a supernormal stimulus - like a moth flying...

species behaviour. This behaviour is often given as an example of a supernormal stimulus. This species can be found in the arid and semi- arid areas of Queensland...

shows up in the phenomena of the supernormal stimulus, a stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which the response evolved...

the reason for this lies in a neurological principle known as the supernormal stimulus, which Spivey demonstrates by replicating Nikolaas Tinbergen's experiment...

frequency than the original with which it was trained. This is called a supernormal stimulus. The fact that the rat is responding more to a "super" rectangle...

moon, resulting in the organism repeatedly responding to this new supernormal stimulus and innately flying toward it. Evidence for the innate response of...

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...

tubercules (bobbly bits). The beetles' behavior was an example of a supernormal stimulus. The report won Gwynne and Rentz the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in biology...

retina, and the stimulus conditions (flash or pattern stimulus, whether a background light is present, and the colors of the stimulus and background)...

comparing the control threshold to thresholds produced by refractoriness, supernormality, strength-duration time constant or "threshold electrotonus" are more...

so called because normal vision was regarded as coming first, while supernormal vision is a secondary thing, confined to certain individuals. An dà shealladh...

selective breeding by a powerful sisterhood, the Bene Gesserit, to produce a supernormal male being, the Kwisatz Haderach. The Star Trek franchise features a...

instinctive behaviors (fixed action patterns). They experimented with "supernormal stimuli" such as giant eggs or dummy bird beaks which they found could...

the tests by claiming the cards lacked a psychic energy called "energy stimulus" and that she could not perform clairvoyance to order. The parapsychologist...

disorders. Abnormal includes three different categories; they are subnormal, supernormal and paranormal. The science of abnormal psychology studies two types...

Indo-Tibetan Yoga. SUNY Press. p. 13. Lawlor (1991: p. 374) states that: "The supernormal, super sensory powers of Aboriginal wise woman and men of high degree...

preferences are the result of preexisting sensory biases, such as that for supernormal stimuli. These could drive the evolution of courtship displays. Courtship –...