Sentences with phrase «puff of air»

The investigators measured how the mice reacted to touch stimuli, such as a light puff of air on their backs, and tested whether they could discriminate between objects with different textures.

At one end was a bottle containing a tasty slurp of milk, at the other, an empty one that also blew a disconcerting puff of air in the animal's face.

When the researchers stimulated the tiny hairs on their wings with puffs of air, they saw immediate responses in their sensory cortex.

Blow small puffs of air into the mouth very gently and allow a pause for expiration.

In the rare case that your baby is among those who need help, clear out his mouth some more with a finger, then give two quick and extremely gentle puffs of air into the mouth and nose.

February 17, 1988, I opened my eyes and heard a procession of sounds: first the phone going off on the opposite side of the bed, rousing us at 5:04 a.m. to what could only be a calamity, then rain pummeling the roof of our old Victorian house, sluicing its sneaky way to the basement, and finally small puffs of air coming from Hugh's lower lip, each one perfectly timed, like a metronome.

If he hit his axons with gentle puffs of air, they didn't swell and break.

Assuming all the hoses are good, it's even possible for the stock intercooler to be separating around the end tanks, if high boost has been run through it for some time (possible explanation for the «big puff of air and dust... around top - center of the engine»).

Maitre and her colleagues studied how babies» brains responded to a light puff of air on the palms of their hands — a «very gentle and very weak touch,» she says.

The U.S. Navy has developed a flight suit for helicopter pilots that delivers little puffs of air on the side of the pilot's body as his helicopter tilts in that direction.

Each beep was followed by an unpleasant puff of air to the eyelid.

This allowed the researchers to blow random puffs of air at their faces, causing them to blink, and to use a non-invasive microscopy technique to look at how the relevant Purkinje cells respond.

Blowing small sharp puffs of air onto the cats face while the cat is having venipuncture also distracts the pet.

Disney's Aireal system is made of modules that track a set target — such as a person's hand — and project puffs of air that can hit the target at a specific time.

The mile - high, flaky creation is taller and wider than most, and every paper - thin sheet, from the dark, carmely exterior to the buttery puffs of air within, is visible from counter-level view.

You can watch the jaw move all the way to the ear and hear soft puffs of air.

Nancy him put on a warm tray next to me and gave him two puffs of air while Noel got the oxygen tank turned on.

The discovery could lead to hearing aids that emit puffs of air.

In addition, unmated males but not females persistently exchanged mild punishments — in the form of puffs of air — in return for hearing songs.

Once the axons have matured, Smith and his colleagues shoot the metal plates with carefully controlled puffs of air.

Puff of air escaping with no BOV hiss, no WG movement points to cold side air leak.

Citronella - spraying collars are one of the most effective as they release a strongly scented puff of air that is non-harmful to interrupt your dog's barking.

These cutesy creatures» cloud making ability stems from their aptitude to use precision puffs of air, and it's in this premise — if you could call it that — which sets the stage for a generous set of minigames, all refreshingly different from the last.

Other works include speakers that beat like hearts, breathe puffs of air, shake, rumble, or generate visual imagery.

Warmed the car and revved to redline with an observer watching the engine, no BOV hiss, no movement on the WG or arm, observer describes «a big puff of air and dust shot out from around top - center of the engine.»

One way to do this is to blow a small puff of air into his nostrils.

A wiry electroencephalogram cap captures a baby's brain response to a light puff of air to the hand.

The handy hoodie is worn like an ordinary jumper, but is secretly an inflatable top that brilliantly turns itself into a super cosy portable pillow with a few puffs of air.

A swallow sounds like an «ah» or a little puff of air.

Each beep was followed by an unpleasant puff of air to the eyelid, which prompted babies to scrunch up their eyes.

Because the random puffs of air were unexpected stimuli for the mice, the researchers could directly compare the differences between legitimate and spontaneous signals in the eyelid - related Purkinje cells that made the mice blink.

If Smith delivers a quick, sharp puff of air, however, something else entirely happens.

The Mecp2 mutant mice were more sensitive to light touch; a small puff of air on their backs startled the rodents more than normal mice.

The previous Friday, a witness in Washington described to investigators hearing about «eight sounds of popping noise» and seeing «puffs of air» from a car that was registered to Ortega.

It is important to try to notice the swallowing to be sure that she is taking milk in; you can sense this by a quiet «gulp» or a sound like a puff of air coming from her.

Before those babies were discharged from the hospital, the researchers used a soft EEG net to measure the babies» brain responses to a puff of air compared to a «fake» puff.

Sleeping newborn babies who were played a musical tone followed by a gentle puff of air on their eyelids learned in just 15 minutes to expect the puff of air after the tone was played.

With Caleb on my chest still in the water, Paula rubbed and stimulated him but he was a bit stunned to get more than a little cry out so thankfully the EMS oxygen came into play and he began crying after about 6 puffs of air.

Once the baby has gotten all the medication in her mouth, quickly blow a puff of air into her face.

If the time between the sound and the puff of air was quarter of a second, the animals blinked after quarter of a second even if the puff of air was removed.

In the present experiment, the researchers studied animals that learnt to associate a sound with a puff of air in the eye that caused them to blink.

The researchers found that those in a «minimally conscious» state were still able to learn to associate the beep with the puff of air.

No puff of air in your face, this cloud.

YOU may think humanity's first words are lost in the noise of ancient history, but an unlikely experiment using plastic tubes and puffs of air is helping to recreate the first sounds uttered by our distant ancestors.

The tone is the «conditioned» stimulus, because only when it is paired with the puff of air will the animal learn to associate the two, producing what then becomes known as the «conditioned response»: a reflexive blink in response to the tone alone that has been produced through the conditions of the experiment.)

The meaning of Thompson's finding was clear: He had found an engram encoding the association between the puff of air, the tone, and the eyeblink, showing for the first time that the destruction of one particular set of neurons could wipe out one particular memory.