Sentences with phrase «mild electric shock»

When they were «caught,» they were given a series of mild electric shocks.

In their experiment, participants were repeatedly shown a blue square while receiving mild electric shocks on the wrist, and learned to associate the two stimuli, so that afterwards they responded to the square with fear.

Then, when researchers left people alone in a room with a device that let them jolt themselves with mild electric shocks, they discovered that most men are so desperate for distractions that they would rather zap themselves.

ScatMat ® A ScatMat delivers a startling but mild electric shock when touched.

When young condors released into the wild electrocuted themselves on power lines, the scientists installed mock pylons in their cages, delivering mild electric shocks to any bird that perched on them.

Neurologist Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who would later collaborate with Schiff and Giacino, showed that same year, 2002, that in vegetative patients, mild electric shocks activated basic sense - perception regions but not the higher - level information processing networks (pdf) that the minimally conscious patients could access.

After a while, they gave the mice mild electric shocks to their feet and a blue light flashed in their brains delivered by a fiber - optic cable, implanting the memory that the Red Room was a dangerous place.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

Many people report it is difficult to start meditating for example, while one much chattered about recent study showed people prefer to give themselves mild electric shocks than be alone with their thoughts.

Instead of the ring of a single bell, rats were exposed to two distinctly different sounds, one of which was paired with a mild electric shock, while the other was not.

But in a second memory test, wherein the animals had to learn to associate a dark chamber with a mild electric shock, the treated Alzheimer's mice did not outperform their untreated counterparts.

Mice bred to have a malfunctioning form of CREB, Silva's study demonstrated, did not remember from one day to the next that they had already been taught to navigate a water maze or that they had previously been placed in a special cage where they received a mild electric shock.

She then exposed the rats to events designed to teach them to fear a previously safe place (where they would now receive a mild electric shock).

Tadpoles that ventured into the red portion received a mild electric shock, and Levin and Blackiston recorded which animals eventually learned to avoid the red side.

The subjects were told that if they decided to keep the money, these individuals would be subjected to mild electric shocks.

Georgetown researchers found that tobacco hornworm caterpillars could be trained to avoid particular odors delivered in association with a mild electric shock.

But past techniques — including training cows to respond to mild electric shocks — have proven ineffective or impractical for wide use.

Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues conditioned rats much in the same way Pavlov trained his famous dog — while the animals heard a tone, they received a mild electric shock to the foot.

- Snore Stopper, a gadget that gives your wrist a mild electric shock when it detects snoring («My wife, Angelica, and the kids love to make snoring sounds when I'm wearing it just to zap me on purpose.»)

If a rat is placed on a narrow shelf above the floor of its cage, its normal tendency is to step down; if the animal is given a mild electric shock every time it does so, however, it will learn to stay put.

The researchers trained transgenic zebrafish expressing a calcium sensitive protein to avoid a mild electric shock using a red LED as cue.

In the experiment, mice were put in a special cage and given a mild electric shock after hearing a tonal noise.

When that didn't work, the researchers sometimes resorted to mild electric shock, using a nine - volt battery to make the venom glands contract and prompt the release of a droplet or two.

When an odor is paired with a mild electric shock, the flies develop short - term memories that persist for around a half - hour, intermediate - term memory that lasts a few hours and long - term memory that persists for days.

Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear - conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactive memories at different times.

Both groups were given a mild electric shock to their feet.

They herded each mouse into a special cage and delivered a mild electric shock to its foot, leading the mouse to form a fearful memory of the cage.

With some mice, they tested a drug that is known to prevent the scaling down, but the drug appeared to make little difference in the ways mice remembered and avoided a location that gave them a mild electric shock.

If they turned over a rock with a snake underneath, they would receive a mild electric shock on their hands.

One group knew they would get a mild electric shock while the other had to guess which rocks were safe.

Dogs learn how to respect the boundaries of the fence through a receiver worn on the dog's collar which emits a mild electric shock when the dog trespasses the boundary.

While most electronic fences work by delivering a mild electric shock, some emit ultrasound or a combination of shock and ultrasound that alerts the dog as he approaches the boundary.

There are ««no bark»» collars for sale that produce a mild electric shock, emit a high - pitched noise or an offending odor whenever the dog begins to bark.

They included: cajoling versus threats from a human, a loud, startling sound, and mild electric shock.

Some dogs will ignore the mild electric shock to investigate and / or chase whatever they find interesting.

There are even special collars that give the dog a mild electric shock if it barks.

These mats may give a mild electric shock or be covered in uncomfortable spikes that discourage your cat from jumping on or touching the area that they cover.

Researchers placed the women in a functional MRI machine to monitor their brain activity while subjected to the threat of a mild electric shock.