Sentences with phrase «in habituation»

However, prior history of caffeine consumption results in habituation in which receptors become desensitized to caffeine exposure.

Chen also worked out the molecular mechanisms behind this pattern and found that different insulins play a crucial role in the habituation mechanism.

Not exact matches

The inherent flaw in this method is habituation: The brain gets used to new odors, and stops responding to them as the novelty decreases.

Remember what Irving Fisher told us in The Debt - Deflation Theory of Great Depressions: The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.

Any of these ascetic practices might at some time be highly effective and valuable for locating and treating the habituation and addiction that result finally in a dullness of body and mind.

Wherever and whenever there has been intense intellectual activity in the Church a theological school has arisen, while institutions possessing the external appearance of such schools but devoid of reflective life have quickly revealed themselves as training establishments for the habituation of apprentices in the skills of a clerical trade rather than as theological schools.

In another visual habituation experiment, they now notice when the experimenter reaches for a new object — that is, when the experimenter has a new goal in minIn another visual habituation experiment, they now notice when the experimenter reaches for a new object — that is, when the experimenter has a new goal in minin mind.

Those who had imagined eating 30 M&M's consumed significantly fewer of the real thing than people in the other groups, suggesting that eating in imagination can cause habituation to real food.

Joachim Vosgerau at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues studied the effect of mental processes on habituation — the weakening of our response to a stimulus when it is repeated.

Schmid says enhancing habituation and sensory filtering in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia might have beneficial effects not only on hyper - and hyposensitivity, but also on cognitive function.

Susanne Schmid, PhD, associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and principal investigator on the study explains that acoustic habituation is a common form of sensory filtering, which refers to the brain's ability to block out extraneous sounds, feelings or visual information so that we are able to focus on what's most important in our surroundings.

Marijn Zandee, technical advisor to the Dzi Foundation, describes how people used to stick marigolds in their noses to block out the offensive smell, but in the course of a year have moved from hesitation to habituation.

A study based on the research, «Habituation based synaptic plasticity and organismic learning in a quantum perovskite,» appeared in the August 14 online issue of Nature Communications.

«Educating residents helps to prevent habituation from occurring in the future, but doesn't take care of animal that's already become habituated,» says Ohio State's Gehrt.

Neuronal Correlates of Habituation and Dishabituation of the Gill - Withdrawal Reflex in Aplysia

Thus, both habituation and dishabituation can be explained in part and perhaps entirely by changes in the efficacy of specific excitatory synapses.

In the first part of the experiment, the so - called habituation phase, the researchers placed a prism in the hands of the babieIn the first part of the experiment, the so - called habituation phase, the researchers placed a prism in the hands of the babiein the hands of the babies.

The habituation process thus did not seem to be effective enough in the presence of noise.

However, regarding the infants placed in a noisy environment, the researchers observed that they had more problems becoming familiar with the prism during the habituation phase.

In a first «habituation» phase, the infants were shown the contents of a glass by tilting the glass in front of theIn a first «habituation» phase, the infants were shown the contents of a glass by tilting the glass in front of thein front of them.

The study identifies new components of consumer ethnocentrism, establishing, in consultation with other research on the topic, five distinct dimensions in the process: prosociality, in which the interest of one's country is more important than one's own; cognition, or interpreting the world from the point of view of one's own ethnic group; insecurity, or regarding foreign products as a threat to the domestic economy; reflexiveness, meaning that one's ethnocentrism is automatically activated; and habituation, in which ethnocentrism becomes a habit.

A team from the Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (CNRS / Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier) has succeeded in showing that a single - celled organism, the protist Physarum polycephalum, is capable of a type of learning called habituation.

Habituation is a form of rudimentary learning, which has been characterized in Aplysia (an invertebrate also called sea hare)[3].

After a while though, the habituation was reversed, the animals got sensitive to the sound again — but only in the front.

In neuroscience, this process is called «gustatory habituation» and you've probably been through this very same thing before if you've switched from drinking whole milk to skim milk.

Interestingly, a study by Taylor (2011) which looked at «Awareness, understanding and experiences of CCTV amongst teachers and pupils in three UK schools» found that the rise of surveillance in schools represents a process whereby intense technological surveillance is normalised through habituation.

These new cats were successfully relocated from danger to safety and released at the Javits Center after a three - week period of confinement onsite for habituation after confirming their comfort level in an area with heavy traffic and loud noise.

In some cases, habituation can help.

A good school should cover the basics for training which are: The history of dog training, since it began in the late 19th century, which will also compare it to other animal training, Animal learning which deals with positive and negative reinforcement, punishment, habituation, sensitization and desensitization and the comparison of human learning to dog learning, Dog behavior and everything associated with that, Designing classes which is how to design your courses and instruction materials and deals with counseling people and motivating them and of course Business management, how to operate your business properly and successfully.

Habituation is the process whereby animals become familiar and comfortable with repeated stimuli, thus not reacting to them in a negative manner.

In one year my practice treated 773 dogs — 79 of them, that's 10 percent, had problems of fearfulness towards people or the environment due to a lack of early socialization or habituation and a further 4.5 percent were inept at relating to other dogs, again due to a lack of early socialization.

Toys should be changed from day to day to avoid habituation and loss of interest, which can occur quickly in cats.

For participation in previous experiments (Berns, Brooks & Spivak, 2012; Berns, Brooks & Spivak, 2013; Cook, Spivak & Berns, 2014), these dogs took part in a training program using behavior shaping, desensitization, habituation, and behavior chaining to prepare them to be comfortable with the physical confines of the MRI bore and the loud noise produced by scanning.

Instead, through habituation and social comparison, we find ourselves in a no - win situation in which no level of income or consumption remains satisfying for long — the hedonic treadmill.

Exposure therapy is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy [137] that involves assisting trauma survivors to re-experience distressing trauma - related memories and reminders in order to facilitate habituation and successful emotional processing of the trauma memory.

Role development needs practice for habituation to take place and to move the protagonist to feel safe in her new role.