Sentences with phrase «of sensory responses»

Quantitative analysis of sensory response is very difficult, however, because it involves a synthesis of the action of many cells.

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The range of possible activity is determined by the complexity of the nervous system, both on a sensory as well as a motor level (MM 41)-- sensory in that with a system of low complexity, an organism is simply not aware of the vast variety of movements in the material field, motor in that the variety of responses necessary for free activity are not materially accessible (MM 19, 43).

These lists and specific references in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting in the fulfillment of God's intentions in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f) reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.

Effects of prebiotic inulin - type fructans on structure, quality, sensory acceptance and glycemic response of gluten - free breads

Describe the impact of birth interventions on the sensory nerves and how these related to both oxytocin and the stress response.

They can become immobilized by a sensory overload of fear, anxiety, or distress resulting in either retreating from input or become defensive in reactions and responses.

One of the key features of sensory play is that it promotes a skilled or purposeful response from your child.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Dr. Uvnas Moberg will also describe how simple interventions, such as touch or skin - to - skin contact, can decrease mothers» experiences of pain by affecting the sensory nerves and the upregulation of the oxytocin response.

The brain's response to sensory impressions can therefore reflect the health of the entire brain.

Thus, their downregulation, or reduction in response, would allow the content of the limbic systems that process emotion and perhaps sensory cortices to play a relatively more dominant role.

The researchers therefore examined the responses of single sensory hairs (sensilla) in different drosophilids to a large variety of ecologically relevant odors, including many leaf odors.

Knowing that our responses to sensory perception and mental representation overlap — for example, the thought of a spider crawling up your leg can induce the same sweat response as the real thing — Vosgerau's team reasoned that thinking about eating food could lead people to habituate to the action itself.

When a standard hearing test was performed on these hearing - impaired individuals, the responses of their auditory sensory cells and neurons, although normal to begin with, gradually worsened as the test went on as a result of the sounds used.

This molecular pore resides on the surface of sensory neurons, and in other animals it stimulates the neurons in response to painful heat or capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their sting.

The scans revealed different patterns of activity in the secondary olfactory cortex — a collection of neurons that mediate pleasant sensory responses to smells and tastes.

Prostaglandins been linked to the sensory perception of pain, but their role in the emotional response to pain is unclear.

The researchers measured tail response learning to electric shock to determine patterns of aging in both the nerve cell that senses touch of the tail, called sensory neurons, and the motor neurons that signal the tail muscle to contract.

«Single Sensillum Recording,» a method which measures the response of single sensory hairs to certain odors, revealed that the proboscis sensillum responds to floral volatiles.

The team was able to view the responses of tens of neurons at a time to signals arriving in the olfactory bulb from the mouse's odor detectors, called olfactory sensory neurons, located in the nose.

By means of the new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of odorants.

A side effect of losing PRMT - 5 in C. elegans is a heightened sense of smell: In the worms, dopamine signaling acts as a brake or check on the sensory system's response to odorants.

Bacterial chemotaxis, the process by which a bacterium changes direction in response to environmental cues, involves a complex array of chemical receptors (red, elongated molecules) and other sensory proteins (blue and green molecules), which work together to process sensory information.

One especially interesting area of inquiry, according to Greenberg, includes the regulatory elements that control the expression of genes in response to sensory experience.

The first stretch of DNA showed up in the penile spines of developing mouse embryos, as well as in spots on the face where sensory whiskers would develop, indicating that it caused these structures to develop in response to male hormones.

The feat means that scientists now can relatively easily study DRG sensory neurons derived from many different people, to better understand the diversity of human sensory responses and sensory disorders and advance a «personalized medicine» approach.

«Following on the work of TSRI Professor Ardem Patapoutian, who has identified many of the genes that endow these neurons with selective responses to temperature, pain and pressure, we have found a way to produce induced sensory neurons from humans where these genes can be expressed in their «normal» cellular environment,» said Associate Professor Kristin K. Baldwin, an investigator in TSRI's Dorris Neuroscience Center.

In mouse models of ASD, symptoms include an imbalance between «on» and «off» neural signaling in the brain's neocortex, altered responses to sensory stimuli and impaired social behavior.

High firing rates could also impair the ability of the brain to decode sensory stimuli, by causing an overwhelming response to even simple sensory stimuli; that could lead to autism and the withdrawal from social interactions.

«How is it possible that we can react to sensory stimuli with millisecond precision if intermediate processing elements — on the level of single synapses, single neurons, small networks and even large neural systems — vary significantly in their response to the same repeated stimulus?»

The variation in fish response as a function of robot speed is unlikely to be related to sensory cues generated by the body movement only, since the fish do not behave differently if the robot is fixed and beats its tail at.

Therefore, in order to understand how arousal states translate into modulation of a simple sensory - based behavior, we use «the fly stampede» that measures visual responses to motion by tracking walking behavior.

Three scientists, who have studied how sensory signals pass from points of sensation such as the eye, foot or nose to the brain, and how responses occur, share the neuroscience prize.

Important advances have included the discovery of the first evidence that the odour response is governed by neurons, of the intracellular signalling pathways between odorant receptors and sensory neurons, and of specific neurons, receptors and neurotransmitters involved in behaviour adaption following experience.

We are currently trying to identify the membrane receptors that mediate rapid effects of androgens and estrogens on behavioral and physiological processes related to courtship in goldfish, as well as to determine if these steroids rapidly affect early stages of sensory processing in ways that amplify neural responses to social stimuli.

We examine the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens, as well as the neuropeptide vasotocin, affect behavioral and brain responses to sensory cues that elicit different types of social output, from courtship to aggression to withdrawal.

What's the News: Engineers and patients dream of mechanical prosthetic limbs that can talk and listen to the brain, moving in response to thought and sending back sensory information.

This results in a heightened chronic stress response that may affect many systems of the brain and body, especially those involved with emotion, sensory perception and cognitive function.

During the Transcendental Meditation program, early (sensory) components of the brain's response to somatosensory stimuli are more widely distributed across the cortex, indicating greater participation of the whole brain in the response to a stimulus.

Some children, like my son, use it as a calming strategy, often in response to sensory overload — bright lights, lots of movement, lots of sound, strange or intense smells, students brushing up against him in line.

Very little can create the all - enveloping, sensory overload delivered by the Lamborghini Aventador LP 750 - 4 Superveloce, and nothing has quite the same mix of brutal response, thunderous noise, and that odd feeling of relief when you've finished your time behind the wheel and survived despite trying to exploit all it has to give.

The outgoing, second - generation Prius suffers from an indifferent chassis; vague, lifeless steering and braking responses; weak accelerative power; and an utter lack of visceral, sensory feedback.

Several structures located deep within the brain, such as the hippocampus (responsible for the formation and storage of memories) and the thalamus (involved in the regulation of sensory perception), comprise the limbic system, a complex network that controls our emotional responses, survival instincts, memory creation, and memory retrieval.

Further rumours indicate that Sony may be planning a response by announcing their plans to launch a sensory package for the Playstation 4, which is made up of numerous electrical pads that attach to your skin and manipulate your body's responses using small, electrical charges.

This new series continues on themes of family in Harvey's whimsical and otherworldly style, while thinking deeper about what lays ahead in a formative sensory response to how fragile the present can be.

Since 2008, she has been working on a series of prosthetics, sensory extensions that have emerged from her close work with scientists and her personal fascination with the study of animal and human instincts as physical responses.

Alongside the work of Atkins's contemporaries, from Benedict Drew to Laure Prouvost, Us Dead Talk Love represents a new viscerality in digital filmmaking — not only in its abject subject matter, but also in the queasily direct sensory response provoked by its disjunctive montage of sound, image and word.

These works call on viewers to explore relationships and responses to art, and to consider the physicality of sensory perceptions as well as the way in which different forms, textures, and materials prompt certain psychological associations.

Although Chicago used industrial methods to make her art - including spray paint and power tools - the work is characterised by a playful use of colour and scale that conveys her interest in sensory responses.

Touch Museum at Young Projects (West Hollywood) November 12, 2015 — February 20, 2016 Julie Weitz's Touch Museum first premiered in the cavernous project space of Young Projects as an immersive experience combining multiple video installations, an original soundscape by LA - based composer Deru and a Youtube channel featuring videos examining the perceptual phenomenon known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).