Sentences with phrase «mild electric shocks»

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.

Assays of spontaneous cage activity were used as surrogate measures of exercise capacity and were chosen to avoid stresses associated with forced exercise (i.e., mild electric shocks).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

To find out if this impairs learning, her team placed mice on a rotating platform with one section that delivered a mild electric shock.

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.

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.

- 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.»)

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

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.

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.

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.

But, we consider that wireless charging is a better technology, as it saves the phone battery from mild electric shock whenever it is plugged in and thereby elongating the battery life.

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

Not exact matches

While subjects were in the scanner, the researchers administered a series of electric shocks to their wrists, each time warning them (by showing them either a blue or a red cue on a screen) whether the next shock would be mild or intense.

[The stimulation] didn't hurt — more like a mild tingle or a static electric shock right on the top of my head.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

In a second experiment, the researchers placed the mice in a staging area where they received a mild electric foot shock.