Sentences with phrase «environmental cues for»

These served as simple environmental cues for drug use.

Light is an important environmental cue for regulating your body's inner clock, so exposure to natural lighting conditions over the course of the day promotes drowsiness at bedtime (Wright et al 2013).

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β - arrestin, which has several known roles in signaling systems, also links a key receptor to a motor protein so that the receptor can be transported to cilia for sensing environmental cues.

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that works to form a particular kind of memory: fear - associated with a specific environmental cue or «contextual fear memory.»

He said that it may be possible for species that have had their migration patterns disrupted to relearn them from «exploratory walks» driven by environmental cues.

«We provide the first evidence that the PPARα - dependent gene Fgf21 demethylation occurs in the postnatal mouse liver, and once established it persists into adulthood and exerts long - term effects on the magnitude of gene expression response to environmental cues, which may account in part for the attenuation of diet - induced obesity (Figure).»

For instance, every time we learn something, the new information is transformed into memory through synaptic plasticity, a process in which synapses are strengthened and become more responsive to different stimuli or environmental cues.

«As bioengineers, we can now design 3D culture systems where environmental parameters such as composition, porosity, and stiffness can be precisely tuned to study the importance of these cues on tumorigenesis,» says coauthor Sandeep Koshy, a Harvard graduate student in the Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, who works in Mooney's lab at Harvard SEAS and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

The brain's ability to reorganize in response to environmental cues is known as plasticity, and it is this flexibility that allows us to learn things we never knew at birth; how to tie our shoes, for example, or do calculus problems.

«The origins of communication signals have long fascinated evolutionary biologists, and multiple potential mechanisms for these origins have been proposed,» says co-lead author Hannah ter Hofstede, an assistant professor at Dartmouth who investigates how sensory systems evolve to encode the environmental cues that are crucial for an animal's survival and reproduction.

Becks hopes to test other organisms that have a capacity for both sexual and asexual reproduction to see if environmental cues could also spur more sex — in hopes of getting to the bottom of how these chancy encounters evolved in the first place.

Light is the dominant environmental time cue which results in, for example, sleeping at night and being awake during the day.

The grand prize of USD 25,000 goes to Liron Bar - Peled for his work describing how multicellular organisms rely on environmental cues to dictate cell size.

Her next series of studies was to show that these multiple loops and bundles of neurons form the anatomical basis for the learning of new habits in response to environmental cues.

Your dog needs you to give him enough practice in many different environments so he can learn what the key points to watch for (environmental, hand signal, verbal cue?)

Past topics include: Making environmental cues work for you Puppy socialization Addressing unwanted behaviors Separation anxiety Integrating a new dog with other pets «Disobedience» Pulling towards other dogs Fearful dogs Capitalizing on informal behaviors Training your dog with affection Multipurpose cues Creating reliable cues Importance of fundamentals When «sit» doesn't happen Crate training your dog How to split a sit The problem with «ignoring» Training with the Grain Positive reinforcement: turning the world into a treat Learning what predicts what It depends: Why dog training «tips» often fail Teach your dog to wait at doors Teaching When, Where, and Why Redirect or Preempt?

It is sort of a weirdly tense feeling to running through the levels trying to be hyper - vigilant about enemy and trap placement (and usually trying to get through as fast as possible before said placements can have a chance to murder the player) while simultaneously trying to keep an eye out for any environmental cues (such as subtle shifts in color gradation) to determine things which walls are destructible and have goodies like health upgrades behind them.

In order for a smartphone to provide the desired experience, it should be equipped with numerous sensors and cameras to check environmental cues and motion.

They don't provide clear surround sound, and for gamers who use environmental cues to tell them when someone is sneaking up from behind, this might be a serious drawback.

Environmental cues replace any need for a HUD, beyond the occasional «Press X to [perform action]» prompt, which can be turned off.

Sudden life stress, environmental cues, and social networks can all combine to create powerful agents for relapse.