Sentences with phrase «making head movements»

The mice treated their VR world like the real one — moving up and down the hallway to receive a reward — but without making head movements, enabling recordings to be made from within neurons (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08499).

Not exact matches

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

This can never happen, Kierkegaard says: whenever we look back, we're still moving forward, and that movement not only makes our retrospective vision somewhat shaky and uncertain, it also increases the chance that while our heads are twisted around we'll run into a tree or fall into a ditch.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

But the next thing astonishes me, it makes my head swim, for after having made the movement of resignation, then by virtue of the absurd to get everything, to get the wish whole and uncurtailed — that is beyond human power, it is a prodigy.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

6» 0 is rather large for a 154 fighter and the fact that his head movement makes Ricky Hatton look like Floyd Mayweather makes me think he's the typical prospect that relied on athleticism to win fights rather than skill.

Smith, a Kiwi racing legend is 75 - years - old and in his 60th year of racing, and thankfully was able to walk away from the accident unharmed - despite his head making some alarming movement and the fact that his feet became exposed during the crash.

We were totally muddled with Delph, Lallana, Sterling and Townsend all just bumbling about, not holding positions, not making any movement off the ball and not getting their heads up.

His movement and quality at the moment ought to make the likes of Sanchez and Walcott hang their heads in shame, even Giroud — who's hit a dry patch, not ideal for a title - chasing squad.

Motha describes expertly how to cover them in oil (we used a really good extra virgin olive oil which made me jealous as it was better than the one on my salad) and massage them from head to toe, using gentle twisting movements on the legs and arms to relax them.

While other 16 week babies might be starting to grab at their feet, lift up onto forearms in Tummy Time or even roll, your little one might still be working on the 2 month milestones of holding his head in the middle of his body, smiling and making smoother movements with his arms and legs.

Also, make sure you keep hold of your baby's head whenever you make a movement to prevent jarring moves.

Awakening occurs about 3 minutes after birth, when baby will begin to thrust head and shoulder, open his eyes and start making small mouth movements.

Shortly after, it relaxes and makes small movements of the arms, shoulders and head.

In this position the baby is raising her head for a few seconds and then makes crawling movements (spontaneous crawling).

She rubs her eyes, yawns, and makes droopy head movements while being carried.

It doesn't sound like much of a musical challenge — except that the woman is paralyzed after a stroke, and can make only eye, facial and slight head movements.

Measurements made by former Ph.D. student Sarah Sharpe revealed that the snake propagates traveling waves down its body, from head to tail, creating a body curvature and a number of waves along its body that enhance its movement through the sand.

If scientists better understand how the brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.

«These are head motions people make, tiny jitters, that are not planned movements,» Rokers says.

When she turned off the VR system's head tracking, taking away the effects of players» head movements and making them passive viewers, they were bad again.

In one test, they were told to rotate the virtual corridor without making any head or body movements, using a joystick.

Rudiments of place cells, head direction cells, and grid cells already existed when the pups made their first movements out of the nest.

Our eyes adjust to stay fixed on an object the instant we move our head because the reflex makes microcontrolled adjustments in the extraocular muscles, causing the eyes to counter head and body movements.

When she gave a little of that freedom back — restoring the system's response to head movements, but making the virtual world shifts lag behind players by as much as half a second — they were still bad.

There's little to fear from the existing Do - It - Yourself Biology (DIYbio) movement, concludes a report released today by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. «There's been a lot of debate in the biosecurity community about what DIYers may or may not be doing, from making narcotics to pandemics to viruses that kill heads of state (I'm not joking),» writes Wilson fellow and report co-author Daniel Grushkin in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

Also, you need to make sure that you end the movement with the dumbbell over the chest and that you never try to lower the dumbbell on the ground behind your head since this poses a significant risk of injury to the rotator cuffs.

To begin training your delts in an efficient way, you need to make sure to target all three heads of the muscle, which is best achieved through a routine comprised of an adequate combination of pressing, pulling and leverage movements.

Make sure that your head and neck are parallel with the floor throughout the entire movement.

To activate your sternal head even better, make sure to turn your palms upward (supination) at the end of the movement.

However, the all - time favorite delt exercise, the overhead press, primarily hits the anterior part of your delts, which makes it less than adequate for building huge delts, not to mention that the anterior head already gets more than enough stimulation from all pressing and fly movements you've been working your chest with.

The shoulders are comprised of the relatively large deltoid muscles, which have three heads — anterior, medial and posterior — and the smaller rotator cuff muscle group, made up of the teres minor, infraspinatus, supraspinatus and subscapularis, which is responsible for supporting the ball and socket joint and assisting all overhead movements.

When you lie on the bench, make sure your butt, upper back and head are all in good contact with the pad, and keep it that way all throughout the movement.

On the other hand, machines allow you to focus more on the effort and less on the mechanics of the movement, and this can be useful for the end of your workout, when accumulated fatigue makes balancing weights over your head very difficult.

As I mentioned before, the simple fact of having the weight over your head and stabilizing it over your head throughout the whole movement makes it a real «head to toe exercise» involving every single muscle in the body.

Feels slow, groggy, foggy, itchy eye, feel need to scrunch eye up (crease / wrinkle on forehead which has been there for years, which makes me think this head sensation is not actually so new), extra sensitive to external stimulus (noise, movement, light), feeling that I can't keep up with moving things.

This bodyweight exercise targets the long head of the triceps with an overhead movement... then we also add in an unstable bar to make it even harder.

The success of it is due so much to Hawkins who uses her body as the instrument to communicate — head to toe to fingertip, she is aware of every movement she makes.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

25th Anniversary Celebration Reception & Plenary - Making a Difference: Charters Past, Present and Future: Featuring a panel of woman charter public school leaders from across the state moderated by Dr. Margaret Fortune, CEO of Fortune School of Education, who will discuss the diversity of California's charter public school movement, models and theoretical approaches to education as well as where we've been, where we are now and where we are headed in the next 25 years.

Veronica Melvin, of Communities for Teaching Excellence, headed by ex-LAUSD board member Yolie Flores, says the ad is intended to clue in the public to the fact that there's «a movement afoot to really push the district and union toward making progress — to realize quality education for L.A.'s youth.»

New drivers have an especially hard time judging the time and distance required to make maneuvers in traffic, so we went back to the parking lot and tried to get better at timing things and separating head turns from hand movements.

Restraints In the frontal impact, despite modest rearward and upward movement of the steering wheel, the dummy's head made contact with the centre of the steering wheel.

The tiny steering wheel and head - up display didn't stop me achieving a comfortable driving position but the small steering wheel amplifies every little movement to the road wheels making the car feel unstable.

When he reached the middle of the hall, beside the Duke, he sank down on one knee, with the flamboyant arm and head movement he'd been practising (perhaps he could be courtly enough to make up for the Duke's gruffness).

Rattlebridge Make Believe, ROM, is absolutely luscious, with a gorgeous head, great body, and wonderful soundness and movement.

It is also important to note that small dogs in general, and terriers specifically, can become over-stimulated around small children who run, scream, cry, pat them on the head, pull their fur, ears, tails, or make sudden movements.

The signs are made with the help of body movement involving eyes, ears, eyebrows, head, mouth and tail.

Later that evening, Delphy - basing her movements on an inaccurate navigational bearing - made a fateful turn, believing she was heading into the Santa Barbara Channel.