Sentences with phrase «particular odor»

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

For example, a particular odor or sound, of no importance in itself, is taken by an animal as indicating the presence of another animal.

But each animal has to learn to associate a particular odor with a reward and then do something, like press a button, to let researchers know when they smell it.

Next, they trained the flies to associate the red light and ejaculation with a particular odor.

The chemical sensors lie in the sperm cell's tail, which may beat faster in response to particular odors to help the sperm swim to the right place to fertilize an egg in a female mosquito, scientists suggest February 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Rains developed a simple regimen to teach the insects to associate a particular odor with food.

«The olfactory system is often an underappreciated sensory system in humans, even though we've all experienced the feeling of smelling a particular odor and having an almost instant flashback or emotional experience of an old memory,» said Filomene G. Morrison, BA, a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the paper.

Studies published in 1997, for example, focused on the reflex - like response of C. elegans of moving toward, or away from, a particular odor, depending on whether it was attractive or repulsive.

Sadly, both have proved to the world that, as Kurt Vonnegut might paraphrase, their excrement still has a particular odor.

The yeast has a particular odor and look that you will recognize again if you see it once.

This breed also has a particular odor to its coat that is distinguishable to other Chessie owners.

The owner says the dog just ran off, but the truth is, the dog is trying to find out where that particular odor originates.

The particular odor of catastrophe that exudes from the major players of his pictorial dramas demands both key and explanation.

Hanrahan's staff noticed that one stack of resumes had a particular odor.