Sentences with phrase «other complex behaviors»

Neuroscientists from Canada and California will receive top honors this month during the annual Gill Symposium at Indiana University Bloomington, where researchers studying memory, cognition and other complex behaviors will take the stage.

«These observations unmask the relevance of primitive brain regions previously linked to eating to other complex behaviors,» said lead author Marcelo Dietrich, M.D., assistant professor of comparative medicine and neurobiology and a member of the Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism at Yale School of Medicine.

Not exact matches

While social influence behaviors like ingratiation are typically thought of as a dyadic phenomenon (that is, involving two people — the ingratiator and the ingratiated), these behaviors are actually embedded in a much more complex and dynamic work environment, which includes many other people.

If the fundamental laws of connection changed altogether with variations, for instance, in the shape or size of bodies, or if the laws governing the behavior of a complex had no relation whatever to the laws governing the behavior of its parts when belonging to other complexes, there could hardly be a limitation of independent variety in the sense in which this has been defined.

What is required, then, is that the laws governing the behavior of parts in one complex be related to laws governing those parts in other complexes.

On the other hand, those who saw that this was wrong were sometimes persuaded that a complex pattern of behavior and ceremonial observance was needed.

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

Drawing insights from the behavior of other complex systems, the trio has created a novel simulator that can mimic the largest blackouts that a power grid is likely to experience.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

Searching for clues to complex human social behaviors, the team developed a procedure in which laboratory rats — much like humans — prefer to approach distressed juveniles but avoid distressed adults — responses known as social affective behaviors, according to the article titled «Insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to others in distress.»

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

«Complex behaviors, like the behaviors we call «personality» or «temperament,» can be associated — genetically correlated — with other traits that one might think are independent of such behaviors, like body shape and swimming abilities,» he said.

Other attempts to synthesize complex human behavior into alien - intelligible symbols have fizzled when they tried to relay much more than purely scientific and mathematical information.

The findings are consistent with some other studies about the impact of fat and sugar on cognitive function and behavior, and suggest that some of these problems may be linked to alteration of the microbiome — a complex mixture in the digestive system of about 100 trillion microorganisms.

But whether all the signaling is part of a complex mating system or some other form of behavior entirely remains to be seen, he added.

«There are patterns at every stage of life that are different from the patterns at other stages, and with the system we created we can see that really clearly in ways that are surprisingly complex and robust,» says Bargmann, who is the Torsten I. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior.

The circuits the researchers built are the largest ever published to date in eurkaryotic cells, which, like human cells, contain a nucleus and other structures that enable complex behaviors.

The accompanying changes in behavior, especially among men, might have helped humans evolve more complex language, live atop each other in cities, and work together to create sophisticated cultures.

Unlike microcrystals, for example, the tubules have complex forms — often observed abruptly changing direction to avoid intersecting each other, in a manner consistent with tunneling microbial behavior — and contain organic molecules associated with biological activity; the Ries tubules are also similar to fossil traces of microbes found in volcanic glass.

Studies of meditation carried out with other techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, have revealed different patterns of neural activity — not surprisingly, since meditation is a complex behavior that evokes many different psychological states.

In other words, fairness to strangers — who would be regarded with antagonism or at least mistrust in small, close - knit hunter - gatherer groups — is a behavior that has evolved along with other norms in complex societies.

Initiated in 2002, QuakeSim uses NASA remote sensing and other earthquake - related data to simulate and model the behavior of faults in 3 - D both individually and as part of complex, interacting systems.

Located behind the forehead, it plays a role in making decisions and other complex mental activities, in emotions and in behaviors.

Since it is still beyond the reach of even the most sophisticated in vitro methodology to simulate the complex interplay of physical, cellular, biochemical, and other factors that influence cell behavior in microvessels and interstitial tissues, we make use of intravital microscopy.

While the Anopheline Y had previously been implicated in male mating behavior, recent data from the Anopheles gambiae complex suggests that, apart from the putative primary sex - determiner, no other genes are conserved on the Y. Studying the functional basis of the evolutionary divergence of the Y chromosome in the gambiae complex is complicated by complete F1 male hybrid sterility.

When the other seniors at Calvary Chapel high school in Murietta, California, joined in the discussion, the class moved quickly from the question of whether the monster in the novel can be blamed for his behavior — since he was abandoned shortly after his formation, and no one taught him right from wrong — to the more complex issue of «whether the monster has a soul.»

From the disturbing lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides to struggles for civil rights from Birmingham to South Africa, Facing History trusts each rising generation of students to wrestle with complex moments in history, and works to help them understand the range of human behavior.

Managing a school's culture is not dependent on the authority that you have based on your position, but can only be affected by increasing your influence over behaviors, beliefs, relationships, and other complex dynamics present in the school that are often unpredictable.

«Reading fiction increases empathy, improves social behavior and interactions, increases awareness of how others think and see the world, improves overall mental ability, and enhances the ability to handle complex situations,» Jennifer Sackett, vice president of NCPLDA, said in a news release.

«Reading fiction increases empathy, improves social behavior and interactions, increases awareness of how others think and see the world, improves overall mental ability, and enhances the ability to handle complex situations,» said Jennifer Sackett, vice president of NCPLDA and Library Director of Lincoln County Library, in an interview with the Carolina Coast Online.

Rats and other animals can be trained to perform a complex sequence of behaviors by chaining together a series of simple operant responses.

As one of fewer than 200 Certified Dog Behavior Consultants in the entire world, we are recommended by veterinarians, dog trainers, rescue groups, and other pet professionals for the most complex and difficult cases.

The evidence is complex and often inconclusive, and there are no simple or one - size - fits - all answers to client questions about if and when to neuter their male dogs.2 There also are justifications for neutering males other than direct individual health benefits, such as population control and managing undesirable behaviors.

Separation anxiety is a complex behavior disorder displayed when the owner (or other attachment figure) leaves the dog.

The other behaviors are so complex that removal of hormones often doesn \» t significantly impact them.

Trainers and behaviorists need each other in a world of complex behaviors, training issues, and reading preferences.

The former difference inspires complex vibratory resonances within their molecules when they are struck in radiation - inducing collisions with other molecules, while the latter distinction, that is the «outer electron shell populations, configurations, & «quantum states & propensities,» etc.,» yield (or, should you prefer, «cause») all manner of wildly differing «quantum behaviors.»

Of course the cerebral cortex also implements lot of other stuff (e.g. very complex instinctual social behaviors).

These issues are so complex that maintaining objectivity is extremely difficult both in what concerns own behavior and motives and what concerns judgement of other people's (and organizations») actions and motives.

I've seen this sort of behavior in other (physical) complex systems before, where when you «bang» it, it finds a new, lower minimum.

Shifting climates under external forcing, if they follow the general behaviors of other complex systems with Chaos, don't generally form stable states during the perturbation, and especially if the perturbation itself is irregular.

If you live in a share complex, such as student housing or a senior citizen complex, you might want to consider a higher contents coverage plan that protects against other's neglectful behavior.

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«I am currently a clinical psychologist at UCEBT, offering Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and other evidence - based treatments for complex mood and anxiety disorders across development.

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Students will learn to employ core clinical interventions and treatment modalities for people with complex issues, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and other specialized approaches.