Sentences with phrase «human behavioral studies»

Desiring to be treated as more than a mere animal, Taylor tries to communicate with Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter), a psychologist involved in human behavioral studies, and her archeologist fiance Dr. Cornelius (Roddy McDowell).

«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.

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«This topic is important, since it will shed a light on the evolution of human cheating and punishment,» Liesbeth Sterck, a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email.

Throughout her career, Penny has applied human psychology and behavioral studies to business management.

Financial markets are a prime example of the way human biases can manifest at either end of a spectrum of emotions: this is the core of behavioral finance, where the study of economics and psychology intersect.

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

Dr. David Pearl, Chief of Behavioral Science, Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institute for Mental Health, had just conducted a 10 - year followup study on behalf of the Surgeon General «s office.

Current studies on humans show no harmful effects of supplementing infant formula with DHA and ARA and some studies even show some benefits to a child's visual function and / or cognitive and behavioral development.

Initially Professor McKenna specialized in studying the social behavior of monkeys and apes but the birth of his son in 1978 he began to apply the principles of human behavioral evolution to the understanding of human infancy.

According to studies, baby crying, a previously unknown behavioral state of human fetuses, is an expression of displeasure and can occur as early as 28th week of pregnancy.

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).

By looking at reproduction as both a source of cooperation and conflict between the sexes, the researchers are finding clues from this study on a behavioral and molecular level that can be an important link for solving certain unexplained causes of human infertility.

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

That's «a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens,» notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small - scale tribal societies in South America.

The authors are continuing their study of urban impacts on finches — emphasizing the behavioral and immunological impacts of humans and urban parasites on the birds.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived stem cells from Down syndrome patients and mouse models to determine whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy and other candidate drugs.

The study shatters the widely held myth that tool use and laterality are connected only in humans, say behavioral scientists.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

«Behavioral studies from mobile crowd - sensing: Smartphone monitoring has become a boon for scientists studying human behavior and factors influencing stress.»

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

«Claiming an evolutionary basis to sexual behavior based on one study trivializes the rich complexity of human behavior,» says Barry Komisaruk, a behavioral neuroscientist at Rutgers University, Newark, in New Jersey.

Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

A retracted study linking the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) to behavioral problems in mice has been republished by a different journal.

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Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

Center investigators in psychology include Randolph Blake, who uses behavioral and brain - imaging techniques to study the neural bases of human visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception.

I study many traits and diseases of complex genetic background, ranging from autism and obsessive compulsive disorders in humans to cancer and behavioral disorders in dogs.

But according to Clive Wynne, a behavioral scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and one of the new study's authors, sociability could have been a key trait that helped early dogs get access to human scraps.

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In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

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

Our data here, combined with over a dozen physiological and behavioral human studies that begin to point to the prenatal period as a BPA window of vulnerability, suggest that pregnant mothers limit exposure to plastics and receipts.

For 11 years, Bub worked closely with Dean Kathleen McCartney as a research assistant on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which further opened her eyes to the effects of high - quality early education experiences on children's social, behavioral, and cognitive skills.

Each day's news brings new findings from the world of brain research, behavioral economics, psychology and the study of the human mind.

New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses the findings culled from brain research, behavioral economics, psychology, and the study of the human mind and how they point to an old yet new understanding of human nature and human success.

In January, New York Times columnist David Brooks visited the Ed School for an Askwith Forum at which he discussed findings culled from brain research, behavioral economics, psychology, and the study of the human mind and how they point to an old yet new understanding of human nature and human success.

Whether studying behavioral, cognitive, or social - emotional development in children or the design of learning technologies to maximize understanding, you will gain a strong background in human development, the science of learning, and sociocultural factors that explain variation in learning and developmental pathways.

The vision of the College of Education and Behavioral Studies is to lead conversations around issues of human enlightenment, social conscience, and mutual caring.

Anthropological Anatomy: It is also called physical anthropology which deals with the study of biological, behavioral aspects of human.

Multiple studies in the field of behavioral economics conclusively show that humans are inherently bad investors.

Many of the ideas and concepts Graham mentioned regarding human behavior have been backed by behavioral finance studies written the past 20 years.

A recent behavioral study concluded that human emotions can be contagious to dogs, and a dog's behavior could be influenced by their humans» stress level.

One study showed that, although older animals are less likely to be adopted, proactive programs at animal shelters that promote human - animal interaction and behavioral training can decrease the amount of time it takes for an animal to be adopted.

Dr. Miklosi is the Director of the Family Dog Research Project the first research group to study the behavioral and cognitive aspects of the dog - human relationship.

Stanley Coren, a psychologist who has been very active in studying the human - animal bond, recently presented his observations that when analyzing randomly selected photos of humans hugging their dogs, over 80 % of the dogs appeared to be exhibiting behavioral signs of stress (to be clear, some dogs seemed perfectly happy with the hugs, just not too many of them).

This form of training is recommended by the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior because studies show that positive training is associated with fewer behavioral problems and greater obedience than methods that involve punishment and / or encourage human dominance.

Had been following psych only via behavioral economics, which showed that a lot of the underlying assumptions about human «rational choice» from when I studied Econ are just wrong.

IPBES is particularly looking for fellows with a scientific and / or practical background in: ecological and environmental economics, environmental and sustainability sciences, environmental ethics and philosophy, environmental sociology and anthropology, environmental psychology and behavioral science, environmental history, science and technology studies, political ecology, human geography, human ecology, cultural ecology, environmental policy and law, political sciences and trade, and from other fields related to integrative approaches to human - nature relations and linking knowledge to policy and practice.