What is "cues"

Usage examples of "cues".

All the myriad cues that set off aurora season in males were months gone.

We may find this seasonal variation useful, providing environmental cues for our planned two-phase reproductive cycle.

There are plenty of environmental effects we can utilize as cues, to trigger desire at appropriate times.

With no aurorae or other summer cues to launch male rut, none of this was likely to go anywhere, and right now the mood was light.

Was it something intrinsic to males, that made them sensitive to cues of wind and wave?

Old-fashioned human react to the most inconvenient incitement cues of allincessant, perennial, omnipresent.

Leie no doubt wore her hair differently, carried distinct scars, and would acknowledge with a thousand disparate cues that she knew these people who were utter strangers to Maia.

Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced by a few cues and questions, especially in the therapeutic setting.

But where in the past the exponents of the mnemotechnic art might have envisaged themselves as spectators at such a theatre, looking inward to the stage as an elaborate set full of memory cues, in the Renaissance memory theatres the mnemotechnician was supposed to look outward from the stage, the actor facing an audience whose location in their ordered ranks of seats provided the sequence clues.

On the one hand, such technologies freeze memories with all the rigidity of old Victorian sepia family portraits, providing an exoskeleton which prevents them from maturing and transforming themselves as they would do if untrammeled and without constant external cues within our own internal memory systems.

After a few trials, the rat will swim more or less directly to the shelf, locating it by cues in the environment such as the clock, light and cage.

Does it measure the distance it has swum from the start-point, for instance, or does it orient by use of the environmental cues given by the objects visible on the walls surrounding the tank?

On the other hand, if the room cues are rotated so that, for instance, the clock now appears in the south instead of the north, the rat will become confused, swimming to the region of the tank at which the shelf would have been relative to the clock if the latter had not been shifted.

Again, there are cues both internal to the maze and on the walls surrounding it, and the maze can be rotated relative to these external cues.

When the chick has learned about the bead, any one of these cues will subsequently allow it to avoid it.