Sentences with phrase «animal behavior experiments»

And in many ways, it still is the dominant force in animal behavior experiments.

Findings may be having a profound impact on everything from animal behavior experiments to human clinical trials

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The foundations of behavior therapies were constructed by the Russian physiologist Pavlov's experiments in conditioning animals early in this century.

In terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experiments.

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«The interesting thing here was that we did not simply carry out a dietary experiment, but instead considered the behavior of the animals,» he commented on the approach.

Shettleworth calls the study «provocative,» but insists that further experiments with more animals are needed before Santino's behavior can be interpreted as advance planning.

Niko Tinbergen, a pioneering investigator of animal behavior, experimented with herring gulls 50 years ago, but the relevance of his work to evolutionary theory has not been widely appreciated.

To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments.

The experiment, Dulac adds, implies that the neuronal circuits for «male» behavior exist in the brains of female mice and that the animals» VNO, by sensing pheromones, controls which sexual behavior repertoire is expressed.

Genetic experiments in the fruit fly Drosophila have already elucidated the neuronal and molecular basis of circadian rhythms, sleep, animal courtship, pain, hunger, aggression and many other behaviors.

One of the main goals of animal behavior research, she says, is to operationally define behaviors so that another scientist not involved with the research could read the definitions and use them to replicate the experiment and quantify the movements and actions of the animals.

At the outset of the experiment, the researchers tested the visual attention and anticipatory behavior of rats, and segregated the most impulsive animals.

Both are packed with clever experiments, intriguing anecdotes, and a delight in the diversity of animal behavior.

Their experiments provide clues about the neural circuits and signaling pathways involved in compulsive behavior and may provide a useful animal model for studying OCD and evaluating treatments.

Audrey Dussutour of the Center for Animal Cognition Research in Toulouse, France, and her colleagues set up an experiment to investigate how overcrowding would affect the creatures behavior.

For reference, data from Figure 2A is included which was collected from animals that were used in behavior experiments 4 to 5 months post infection.

One logical next step, says Arnon Lotem, a behavioral ecologist at Tel Aviv University, is to create an experiment that assesses whether animals that receive antibiotics show higher or lower levels of helping behaviors.

In this experiment, the animals showed behaviors similar to the effects of drug abuse — going through binging, withdrawal, and craving while on this feeding schedule.

Their experiments start on animals — dead pigs and dogs — one to success, though they do find that the serum continues to remain in the brain longer than expected, resulting in aggressive and erratic behavior in their subjects.

Pacelle also went so far as sort of excuse Vick for his behavior because as a society we give a lot of «mixed signals» about our concern for animals — even going so far as to compare those who hunt and raise animals for food (you know, to help people survive), and to experiment on (you know, to cure diseases to kill people) to dog fighting (you know because torturing dogs for the fun of it is sort of similar to those others).

Jason Goldman published a great writeup on Thoughtful Animal about Tronick's 1975 experiment, the impact it had in understanding child development, and how it's being used, including to predict child behavior:

Many common parenting techniques are adapted from animal behavioral experiments designed to elicit or extinguish selected behaviors.