1. plural of interstimulus; the intervals or gaps between successive stimuli in a sequence of stimuli, especially in psychological or neuroscientific experiments.
Usage: technical; psychology/neuroscience; typically used in experimental contexts

Examples

• The researchers varied the interstimuli to measure how reaction time changed with different time gaps.
• In the conditioning experiment, the interstimuli were kept constant at 500 milliseconds.
• Shorter interstimuli between the auditory cues led to faster neural adaptation.
• The study examined how interstimuli duration affected memory consolidation in participants.