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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7213511 | Method and apparatus for printing a ribbon for packaging gelatin capsules Apparatus for producing image bearing filled gelatin capsules (12 and 16) for directing gelatin ribbon (2,4) from respective casting drums to an encapsulation station (6). Along the path of at least one ribbon (4) is a transfer sta... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6928901 | Device for removing a broken light bulb from a socket A device for removing a hollow base of a broken light bulb utilizing a member terminating in an end surface which is capable of extending into the hollow base of a bulb. The member also includes a portion capable of receiving an applied torsional force. An adhesive ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6440049 | Folder with early warning jam detection system and related method A folder for processing a stream of printed signatures from a printing press and related method. The signatures have a desired path with a path edge and each signature has a lead and trail edge. The folder comprises a plurality of sensor sets, each sensor... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6352497 | Detectable marks in trim material This invention pertains to methods of checking for successful removal of trim material from trim areas disposed at periodic intervals along a web in a processing line. Marking material is marked, optionally as reference marks or reference images on the tr... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6280372 | Process and apparatus for preparing packaging material for the production of (cigarette) packs Process and apparatus for folding or shaping a continuous material web (10) made of thin packaging material. In this case, the material web (10) is directed through a shaping subassembly (27) which uses fixed shaping elements, namely shaping webs (46, 47 ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 5120291 | Chopper folding machine with bad fold detecting A chopper folding machine including a chopper blade and a conveyor belt driven synchronously by a drive system for a folding apparatus put in juxtaposition with a printing machine, and a timing adjusting device provided in a drive system for at least one ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5021039 | Apparatus for manufacturing air cushion dispatch packages An apparatus for manufacturing air-cushion dispatch packages, the apparatus comprising an unwinding mechanism for paper webs and air-cushion foil webs. The apparatus introduces air-cushion foil webs between the paper webs and seals each paper web to a foi... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4421499 | Tube forming shoe and method of forming a flexible web into a shoe An improved film tube forming shoe includes a brake edge having a configuration which is related to the diameter of the shoe, to the film width, and to the diameter of a product to be wrapped in the tube. The shoe is provided with outwardly directed press... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4090432 | Guiding an elongate sheet of packaging material A method of and apparatus for guiding an elongate sheet of packaging material towards a former which manipulates the sheet into a tube having its longitudinal edges slightly overlapped to enable them to be formed into a seam, the sheet being caused initia... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4059257 | Laundry folder A laundry folder for folding small pieces, having means for automatically centering the pieces transversely relative to a longitudinal center line and maintaining them so centered in their travel through the folder, including photo-electric cells for spot... | 11/22/1977 |
