In college, she participated in multiple semesters of independent research in her school's pigeon
lab studying behavior.
Not exact matches
In this 2012
study, University of North Texas educational psychologist Wendy Middlemiss and her colleagues tracked the
behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they went through a five - day sleep training program à la crying - it - out in a sleep
lab in New Zealand.
His
lab has looked at how the nature of stress in parent - child relationships influences child and family function as well asand has the used longitudinal
studies to look at the association between parenting styles and children's emotions and
behaviors that may contribute to early mental health issues in children.
Dr. Brian Wansink, a professor of consumer
behavior at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Food and Brand
Lab, has published a new
study in the journal Food Quality and Preference entitled «Ingredient - Based Food Fears and Avoidance: Antecedents and Antidotes.»
M: There is a wonderful person named Gottfried Schlaug, who has probably the best
lab around that does imaging
studies and cognitive
studies for musical
behavior.
Tarantulas reveal intriguing mammal - like
behaviors, says a scientist who cares enough to
study them (not to mention keep 500 of them alive in his
lab)
The Campàs
lab is
studying several of these questions, including how limbs are built and how mechanical changes in tumors affect the
behavior of malignant cells and the growth of the tumor.
A recent
study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial
behavior outside the
lab
(The researchers wanted to
study the
behavior of the P. morrisi they had collected, but they were killed in the
lab by other ants.)
The
lab has been particularly active in the development and use of novel behavioral assays that provide a unique approach to the
study of drug -
behavior interactions.
«We are the first and only
lab that has successfully and fully been able to tap into what the spider's brain is listening to,» said Ron Hoy, Cornell professor of neurobiology and
behavior and the senior author of the
study.
While some anonymized,
lab - based experiments have suggested that religious
behavior may increase prosocial qualities like generosity and trustworthiness, few researchers have
studied this question in the context of a real community.
Studies about parenting often are biased in the
lab because participants give answers that they think are expected of them or are not aware of their own
behavior.
«From Brexit, Trump and support for Vladimir Putin in Russia to the nationalist, ultra - conservative government in Poland,
studies from our and other
labs show that collective narcissism systematically predicts prejudice, aggression and a tendency to interpret innocent
behaviors as provocation to the national group,» she says.
The pieces of this experiment, in a basement
lab at Cornell University's Clark Hall in Ithaca, N.Y., span more than half of Reppy's 50 - year career
studying the
behavior of helium cooled to ultra-low temperatures.
For the current
study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's
lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the
study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different
behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.
But a recent
study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial
behavior outside the
lab.
Researchers intend to transport the elusive material between
labs and use it to
study the strange
behavior of rare radioactive nuclei
«While laboratory
studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and
behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the
lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.
Raised for dozens of generations in the
lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to
study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related
behaviors.
«Because the fish are so committed to their role as fathers, we're able in the
lab to dissociate their parental
behavior — the fanning and the nipping — from
behaviors associated with courtship, territory defense and nest defense,» said University of Illinois graduate student Ross DeAngelis, who led the
study with psychology professor Justin Rhodes.
Almost every animal
behavior studied in the
lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.
«This paper provides a nice bridge between feeding
behavior and sleep
behavior with just a single molecule,» says Nathan Donelson, a post doctoral fellow in Griffith's
lab and one of the
study's lead authors.
Funded by NSF, DARPA, and the Office of Naval Research, members of the
lab are
studying fish schooling
behavior and the vertebral columns in sharks and bony fish.
In the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging
behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have
studied both in the
lab and in the wild.
Lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand
Lab and author of Slim by Design concludes, «Evoking fear may seem like a good way to get your message across but this
study shows that, in fact, the opposite is true — telling the public that a
behavior will help them be healthier and happier is actually more effective.»
«Recent
lab experiments
studying behavior of a group of individuals show that economic systems may deviate significantly from rational efficient equilibrium at both individual and aggregate levels.
There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to
study this kind of
behavior in the
lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.
He joined the Polleux
lab in 2017 where he
studies how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria networks regulate spatiotemporal dynamics of dendritic calcium in the context of synaptic integration, plasticity, circuit function and
behavior.
After that initial research, the scientists expanded their
study to a sample of 310
Labs, and found the POMC DNA mutation influenced canine corpulence as well as a number of
behaviors.
In 2015, Olivova joined the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) as a Max Planck Scholar, where she gained extensive
lab experience by
studying motor learning
behaviors in mice.
The
lab studies the pathways from sensory input to behavioral output by quantitative analysis of
behavior under well - defined conditions, genetic manipulation of animals or individual neuronal cells, and calcium imaging from neurons in living animals.
The goal of the research in the Pawlowski
lab is to understand the basis of inheritance in plants by
studying the mechanisms governing chromosome
behavior and genetic recombination in meiosis.
Studies in my
lab combine
behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.
One postdoc in Peterson's
lab, for example, is using zebrafish to
study opioid addiction, trying to identify genes that heighten drug - seeking
behavior and thus could be useful targets for helping human addicts.
In the
lab Fawzi is now
studying how altering amino acid sequences affects FUS
behaviors in hopes that it will lead to a clinically useful strategy against ALS and cancer.
Once you are in the program, you will
study anatomy and physiology, terminology, nursing skills, small and large animal diseases, radiology, anesthesiology, parasitology, hematology, clinical skills,
lab and exotic animals, birds, and
behavior.
In environmental field
studies, I have conducted outdoor
labs to assess exotic animal
behaviors and to assist with their rescue and rehabilitation.
After
studying hundreds of couples in a «love
lab» located at the University of Washington, Gottman and his colleagues determined how to predict how long couples would stay together, with 94 percent accuracy, just by watching for certain
behaviors.
My
lab uses diverse methods ranging from social interaction
studies in -
lab to Big Data
studies of social media
behaviors.
His efforts resulted in the establishment of Trauma Center, that consist of a well - trained clinical team specializing in the treatment of children and adults with histories of child maltreatment, that applies treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research
lab that
studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on
behavior, mood, and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professional, educators, parent groups, policy makers, and law enforcement personnel.