Sentences with word «pavlovian»

And this insulin secretion could be cephalic — a kind of Pavlovian response — which would mean that the brain is telling the pancreas to secrete insulin (via the vagus nerve).

A few seconds after the odor puff is given, the locust gets a piece of grass as a reward, as a form of Pavlovian conditioning.

«Study identifies brain cells involved in Pavlovian response: Same neurons malfunction in Parkinson's, Huntington's and Tourette syndrome.»

Generally, the mention of any player described as a winger generates a negative Pavlovian reaction in me.

But for such reflective disaggregation to take place at all, the churches must cease from responding with Pavlovian automatism to their respective class cultures.

Whenever I watch a Woody Allen film I've never seen before, the opening credits serve as Pavlovian conditioning for me.

Distinguished from Pavlovian Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning focuses on voluntary behavior explained by its consequences.

A significant emphasis is on the biology of fearful memory, which we dissect using Pavlovian conditioning paradigms.

It appears that this really is a case of classical Pavlovian conditioning.

It is all based on Pavlovian ideas, which work best on animals and children.

He notes that all of us blobs are carefully educated; and society's incessant litanies of do's and don'ts have their intended Pavlovian effect.

â $ œThese mice are normal in many ways — normal locomotor and pain responses and no difference in depressive - like behavior or Pavlovian fear conditioning.

He likens it to teaching by Pavlovian response, referring to Ivan Pavlov, the Russian psychologist who did pioneering work on conditioned responses.

Z. Millan and P. Janak, «Optical stimulation of nucleus accumbens shell - projecting basolateral amygdala neurons suppresses Pavlovian cue - conditioned alcohol seeking and unconditioned homecage alcohol drinking.»

Making things worse, he says, advertisers have learned how to tug on every one of our more primal Pavlovian triggers with scientific precision, pushing humans into a hyper - consumptive lifestyle that ends up enlarging our environmental impact.

Acting counter to our ingrained Pavlovian biases is a matter of the brain recognizing the conflict between the rational course of action and the instinct.

The same thing applies to the perfunctory handling of the communist's dialogue as well as Irene's adultery, both of which are delivered to the audience like Pavlovian signals rather than character studies.

A new study finds that alcoholic mice more readily form Pavlovian associations with addictive substances.

Seventeen takes in, the FSU fan still jumps, and the song you probably used to hate by that band you may never listen to otherwise elicits a perfect, pure Pavlovian response.

That's the theme song to Big Blue, one of the best video game themes ever and the cause of more Pavlovian stress in my life than anything else.

Nice to see players thinking for a change rather than going Pavlovian when Real Madrid or Barcelona call.

But, as I detailed in my last post, I screwed up with my rather Pavlovian assumption of rapid inflation in response to the US & European fiscal & monetary stimulus we've seen to date.

To help the homeless, the blacks» that is, minorities as abstractions» to defend free speech with Pavlovian tenderness, is far from Percy's own ground of defense.

This could include another piece of stimuli that acted as a subst itute, or that you absently nudged the animal in the right direction, or other pavlovian responses that you did not account for.

The words «global warming» may have achieved Pavlovian status.

In speaking, we cease to respond as Pavlovian beasts and become creatures capable of sadness and joy, remembrance and anticipation, damnation and beatitude.

PowerPoint also conditions worshipers to act and react in visceral ways, so that the character of their bodily actions and emotional responses are at times downright Pavlovian.

The aromas of dried rosemary, smoke and something akin to cheddar crowd and jostle against one another in the shiver - cool space, so concentrated that a visitor's Pavlovian hunger pangs war with a fight - or - flight response to such pungency.

The continued popularity of this moronic chant, however, is a celebration of vacuity, a monument to the sort of unthinking Pavlovian response that has led to some very bad choices in recent times, on both sides of the Atlantic.

It began with tummy time and basic «lying around staring» time, but that quickly progressed to the stage where they reach for the dangling toys above them, swatting at them in a sort of Pavlovian way.

A brilliant Pavlovian concept, the CD allows you to play your child a personalized song which rewards him / her for using the potty by saying their name over and over again.

More than a century after Pavlov's classic study, there is still much to learn about Pavlovian responses.

«We suspect that the support cells enhance the brain circuits that encode Pavlovian response.»

Scientists have conducted Pavlovian conditioning experiments in which subjects are repeatedly exposed to threatening images.

Once the rats had recovered from the procedure, Josselyn used standard Pavlovian conditioning to train both the treated rats and an untreated group to associate a light with a mildly unpleasant foot shock.

Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.

CSHL Associate Professor Glenn Turner and colleagues have now mapped the activity of brain cells in the MB, in flies conditioned to have Pavlovian behavioral responses to different odors.

Together, these results suggest that AGRP neurons stimulate negative signals and generate Pavlovian responses learned through these negative experiences.

Sure enough, the subject's ability to repress Pavlovian bias was predicted by the enhancement of theta during the trials when the bias was unwanted, compared to when it provided proper guidance.

Impaired sensitivity to Pavlovian stimulus - outcome learning after excitotoxic lesion of the ventrolateralneostriatum

The tradition in Vietnam, called «Pavlovian Potty - training,» is based on caregivers learning to understand cues so that they anticipate when a baby needs to «go.»

It has historical roots in Pavlovian psychology and thus it unites the general concept of attraction with those of addiction and associations / pattern formation.»

It's a light musing on adulthood and monogamy and sisterhood, washed in Pavlovian period nostalgia.

This trailer would have been 100 % pure Pavlovian arousal for me back then.

After referring to the first part of the movie as a «dork - pandering assault,» The Boston Phoenix reviewer goes on to say that Michael Cera's performance is «irritating» in part because of «the non-stop Pavlovian laugh track provided by the audience at the screening I attended.»

Essentialism has affinities with Skinnerian and Pavlovian behaviorism.