On one hand this study, inspired by the highly publicised murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, is mentioned in every textbook and often dubbed 'seminal'.

一方面，这项研究受到了1964年广为流传的Kitty Genovese谋杀案的启发，几乎出现在所有的教科书上，并被认为是十分重要和有学术影响力的。

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The new study in Psychological Science was designed to replicate visual tests on motion perception from seminal experiments in the 1970s, with the addition of variable external noise.

在心理科学上设计了一项项新的实验：重复了1970年关于运动知觉的视觉实验的基础上，增加了可变的外界噪音。

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To reduce medical errors, which kill between 40, 000 and 98, 000 Americans a year, according to a seminal study by Harvard doctor Lucian Leape, published in 1999.

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His seminal study of consumption behavior and preferences, conducted earlier this year in greater Beijing, showed that children's preferences determined 69% of the family's overall spending.

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In one seminal study in 2005, the University of California at Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark found that information workers on average switch tasks every three minutes.

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