Sentences with phrase «[skin conductance»

For The Revenant screenings, audience members wore wristbands that measured physiological responses — heart rate variability, skin conductance (sweat, basically), body temperature, movement, and noise — throughout the film.

Results indicate unforgiving feelings encouraged more aversive emotion, significantly higher electromyogram (EMG), skin conductance, heart rate and blood pressure.

Researchers have compared such things as increase of heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance when men and women are confronted with a crying or smiling baby.

Berman (1980) studied the arousal patterns in men and women when they were confronted with a crying or smiling baby measuring such things as increase of heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance.

This was measured through skin conductance and behavior.

At the same time, researchers were tracking the mothers» and babies» arousal responses, measured through skin conductance and behavior.

This duality of heat conductance — stopping heat penetrating through in one direction and guiding away any that does in another — gives it a big edge over other insulators, says Hu.

So as not to be influenced by patients» discourse and analysis of their eating disorders, the researchers used a «skin conductance test,» which measures the subject's sweating rate when exposed to various images.

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

The researchers found that, compared to the typically developing children, the children with autism had higher skin conductance levels when reading silently, reading aloud, and in the group toy session.

Texas A&M researcher Roger Ulrich, for instance, has shown that people who watch a calming nature video after a stressful experience have markedly lower muscle tension, pulse, and skin conductance activity after less than five minutes.

High - conductance voltage - and Ca2 + - activated K + (BK) channels encode negative feedback regulation of membrane voltage and Ca2 + signaling, playing a central role in numerous physiological processes.

Two functional effects of decreased conductance EPSP's: synaptic augmentation and increased electrotonic coupling

Three electronically coupled motor neurons, which mediate inking behavior in Aplysia californica, receive both increased and decreased conductance excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP's).

Mobbs measured the skin conductance of his players by rigging them up to a device similar to a lie detector.

The increased conductance EPSP's reduce electrical coupling among the cells, whereas the decreased conductance EPSP's increase electrical coupling.

When the session with the guinea pigs began, however, skin conductance levels among the children with ASDs dropped significantly.

We have something that matches conductance for taste.

Two tandem C - terminal regulator of K + conductance (RCK) domains from each of four channel subunits form a 350 - kilodalton gating ring at the intracellular membrane surface.

The decreased conductance EPSP's also augment the action of a previously ineffective sensory input and this augmentation is enhanced by the increase in electrical coupling.

Hence AMPA and NMDA receptor channels contain common structural motifs in their TM2 segments that are responsible for some of their ion selectivity and conductance properties.

In the 1980s, Thouless was able to explain a previous experiment with very thin electrically conducting layers in which conductance was precisely measured as integer steps.

Automobile taillights designed as two concentric disks elicit much stronger physiological arousal (skin conductance, pupil dilation) than other taillight patterns.

«Two - step processes our lab and others developed earlier lack a seamless interface and, therefore, lack the conductance sought,» said Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and a leader of the research.

Traditional methods of lie detection include face - to - face interviews and polygraphs that measure heart rate and skin conductance.

As the participants played this painful game, de Berker and his colleagues monitored their skin conductance and pupil size — measures of physical stress.

The mutation resulted in a lower single channel conductance for calcium and a strongly increased conductance for sodium and potassium, indicating that glutamic acid - 95 is a crucial constituent of the ion selectivity filter.

Further, he found the signature memristor effect: When he reversed the flow of electricity, as in an alternating current, the efficiency of the conductance increased, as if the microtubule had remembered the current that previously passed through it.

To address this problem, Cho and his colleagues turned to scanning ion - conductance microscopy (SICM).

The more he replaced the buffer solution with more microtubules, the better the conductance.

The instrumentalists receive a wrist band with skin conductance sensors that can in a sense measure the musician's emotional state.

The workers are wired up, too: a large monitor reveals the readouts from biometric wristbands that measure their heart - rate variability and the electrical conductance of their skin, both crude measures of stress.

The team tested the electrical properties of the device and found that regions within the quantum dots exhibited zero conductance and a stable electron number — both highly desirable traits for quantum computing.

The thermal conductance of an interface determines the rate of heat flow for a given temperature difference between the materials.

«In fact, the conductance seemed to saturate at high pressure, as if by some limiting thermal resistance between the metals and diamond.

Now that we know partial transmission processes can be important, researchers can build microscopic models and simulations to explore them in more detail, and engineers can design devices that enhance or take advantage of this aspect of thermal conductance for a variety of materials.»

This is an artist's rendition of the high pressure thermal conductance experiment in a diamond anvil cell.

Because the imaginary particles of Fermi - liquid theory carry heat and charge in equal amounts, the researchers expected to see equal rates of conductance from both.

A central challenge of thermal physics — and of interfacial thermal conductance, specifically — is that phonons exist over a wide frequency range, and how phonons interact with interfaces and other phonons depends on their frequencies.

«Stiffer metals seem to have higher thermal conductance on diamond, so our initial hypothesis was that the thermal conductance depended on the metal's stiffness,» Hohensee added.

Researchers have found that the hippocampus of poor learners has less CREB (a protein involved in memory and learning) and more alpha5 subunit of GABAA receptor or GABRA5 (a protein that generates tonic inhibitory conductance in the brain) than good learners.

For balanced bilinguals, on the other hand, the skin conductance amplitudes were similar, I concluded that languages reliably elicit emotional arousal and the subjective experience of emotionality when they are learned and used in emotional contexts.

Cystic fibrosis is a rare inherited disease caused by mutations in a single gene called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and affects 1 in every 2500 newborns in the UK and over 90000 people worldwide.

(Self - reported mood ratings were confirmed by measures of heart rate and skin conductance.)

Bound states of excitations can influence the thermal conductance properties of low - dimensional ferromagnets or the propagation speed of quantum information in magnetic wires.

Secondly, the design leads to small — aperture vacuum chambers that result in low vacuum conductance and the need for distributed pumping as well as for the distributed absorption of heat deposited by the synchrotron radiation.

This facilitates their application in transistors and other electronic devices because, unlike graphene, their electrical conductance can be switched off.

The valve consists of a channel protein, the mechanosensitive channel of large conductance (MscL) from Escherichia coli, modified by attachment of synthetic compounds that undergo light - induced charge separation to reversibly open and close a 3 - nanometer pore.

Any effects were assessed using a survey and changes to the volunteers» skin conductance, a measure of physiological arousal.

These 2D semiconductors feature the same hexagonal «honeycombed» structure as graphene and superfast electrical conductance, but, unlike graphene, they have natural energy band - gaps.