Sentences with phrase «behavioral studies»

Previous behavioral studies indicated that mice are indeed capable of some form of color vision.

Genetic and behavioral studies suggest that although they look similar, they are actually distinct species.

Here's the thing: many behavioral studies have shown that when you focus solely on burning fat and design your whole program around that goal, you're more likely to fail.

I have read similar studies and feel that they are more behavioral studies about eating breakfast.

Such behavioral studies do not rule out in advance other perspectives that may yield greater insight into the distinctive qualities of human beings.

Earlier behavioral studies have associated breastfeeding with better cognitive outcomes in older adolescents and adults.

It started out as a simple college behavioral study but became all too real.

Some very elegant behavioral studies have shown that dogs spayed after having a litter, versus those spayed before reaching puberty, have no significant differences in their behavior and loving temperament.

Previous behavioral studies have shown that these proteins are necessary for learning and memory, and their genetic sequences are almost exactly the same in fruit flies and rats.

According to the writes of Dr. James McKenna — Director of the Center for Behavioral Studies of Mother in Notre Dame University indicated that babies sleep next to her mother, she can receive warmth, breast milk, and protection.

In 1968, Vito became dean of the New School of Behavioral Studies in Education and four years later dean of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota.

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

I have a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor's degree in Social and Behavioral Studies from George Fox University.

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral studies with older babies (12) showed that human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

No matter where the «brains» of plants might be located — if they exist at all, that is, since the idea remains controversial — plenty of behavioral studies show they are far more brainy than we tend to assume.

Those are expected to include prophylactic vaccines for hepatitis C as well as behavioral studies.

Using behavioral studies and neuroimaging evidence, the researchers discuss how being easily distracted can help adults with, for example, problem solving and learning new information.

The postdoc, Emily Wroblewski, had joined Parham's microbiology and immunology group at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, after doing behavioral studies of wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

Their paper, which was published in the scientific journal BMC Ecology, is the first behavioral study worldwide showing the interaction of two invasive species in the context of the decline of native species.

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A working group advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on chimpanzee research today urged that the agency sharply scale back biomedical and behavioral studies involving these animals.

«Very few behavioral studies have been done,» Huffard said.

He has been a practicing ornithologist and conservation biologist for 30 years, specializing in integrating behavioral studies of rare and endangered bird species with habitat conservation planning.

The state attorney general's office is investigating a nonprofit foundation associated with the NXIVM corporation that allegedly sponsored brain - activity and other human behavioral studies without any apparent oversight, according to court records.

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a self - charging tracking tag for fish behavioral studies.

She writes a bimonthly news column about notable twins in academia, the arts, and sports for the journal Twin Research, and she directs her own behavioral studies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at Fullerton.

'» she says, «and we're currently working on behavioral studies investigating how knowledge of others» social status shapes things like attention, empathy and trust.»

A team of scientists — including Richard Ross, senior aquarium biologist and cephalopod expert from the California Academy of Sciences — will publish the results of their multi-year behavioral study this week in the journal PLOS ONE.

The results of a new behavioral study out of Lehigh University and Franklin & Marshall College add a wrinkle to this paradigm: scientists found that hybrid chickadees have marked deficiencies in learning and memory compared to their pure species parents, which may be another selective disadvantage.

But he doubts the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would support — verbally or financially — even behavioral studies.

NIH told ScienceInsider in July that the agency was still deciding exactly which behavioral studies would be covered by the new definition.

The study was le d by Jimi Adams, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Studies at CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and published this month in Social Science Research.

The authors have made «a very classy advance in brain behavioral studies,» says Jeffrey Hall, a neurogeneticist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

We also conduct electrophysiological, biochemical, imaging, antd behavioral studies with various knockout and transgenic mice to determine how precise genetic manipulations that either activate or abolish specific translational control mechanisms alter synaptic function and behavior.

A recent featured article and video in the NY Times Science section focuses on some basic whale biological and behavioral studies off Cape Cod, MA.

«Next month or a year from now we'll hopefully be doing much more complex behavioral studies because of it.»

Behavioral studies comparing infected and uninfected mice have suggested that rodents lose their innate, hard - wired fear of cat odors when chronically infected with T. gondii [5], [6], [7], presumably enhancing the transmission of the parasite to its primary host.

Second, behavioral studies conducted by Marino and other experts demonstrate that dolphins exhibit human - like skills.

At the AAAS meeting, Diana Reiss, a professor of psychology at Hunter College, plans to present findings from additional behavioral studies that support Marino's conclusions about dolphins.

Initial behavioral studies were performed at the DZNE / Bonn (object place recognition, Morris water maze, and context fear conditioning).

Based on the emotional and physical abuse that takes place, it's hard to argue that Zimbardo's experiment «worked» (and it feels like something that would result in multiple lawsuits and «Dateline NBC» specials were it attempted today) and yet the lessons learned here influence behavioral studies to this day.

Palm Beach Atlantic University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. E. Randolph Richards has appointed Dr. Chelly Templeton, associate professor of education, as dean of the School of Education and Behavioral Studies effective January 1, 2018.

Current behavioral studies offer possible insight into why this is so, documenting profound differences in the behavior of family dogs — who have opportunities for daily, positive interactions with people — and resident dogs who simply live on the property in relative isolation without integration into the family social unit.