Sentences with phrase «response to stimuli»

These dog shock collars initiate a shock automatically in response to a stimulus from the dog.

Being happy is an emotional response to stimuli be it physical or psychological.

Over time, you'll begin to notice that a large portion of your thoughts are conditioned responses to stimuli, nothing more.

Sexual relevance is associated with the physical response to stimuli.

Thirty - three weeks into your pregnancy, or 31 weeks after conception, your baby's pupils can change size in response to a stimulus caused by light.

It may also stabilize brain chemicals that play a role in memory, mood, organ function, responses to stimuli such as stress and pleasure, and overall mental health.

In a real way, the anticipation of pleasure gives a stronger response to the stimulus — a common theme with human activities.

How would the world be different if humans had a constant fight or flight response to any stimulus, much like birds or insects?

When applied consistently, positive reinforcement and environmental adaptations to mitigate response to the stimuli are the best remedies for behavioral barking problems.

Behavior modification aims to resolve the underlying causes of the behavior, as well as change the dogs response to stimulus through positive reinforcement.

Currently ideas are in response to stimuli arising from these landscapes and I am particularly attracted to man's effect on the environment.

Creating is a natural response to stimuli, both internal and external.

In the past, researchers have turned cells into simple sensors by switching on or off the production of proteins in response to a stimulus.

We then examined these groups» abilities on cognitive control dimensions that could indicate a breadth - bias in cognitive control at different control loci: the allocation of attention to environmental stimuli and their entry into working memory, the holding and manipulation of stimulus and task set representations in working memory, and the control of responses to stimuli and tasks.

Although definitions vary, impulsivity is most often defined as unplanned responses to stimuli with little or no thought given to consequences.

«Recording a thought's fleeting trip through the brain: Electrodes on brain surface provide best view yet of prefrontal cortex coordinating response to stimuli.»

However, if you couldn't explain the steps involved; if it sat outside your conscious mind and relied on muscle memory and a whole host of automatic responses to stimuli, then this was seen as an exclusively human trait.

Experiments like Tracey's show that pain is much more than a direct response to a stimulus.

We are also exploring how intranasal vasopressin, which crosses the blood brain barrier in humans, influences subjective responses to faces in men and women and, through a collaboration with James Rilling at Emory University, how vasopressin modulates brain responses to those stimuli.

Often, it's a subconscious response to the stimuli and reveals itself in phrases like, «Ouch that hurt, how can I avoid that again?

According to the «Austrian school», one of the most basic flaws in the QTM and in many other economic theories is the treatment of the economy as an amorphous blob that shifts one way or the other in response to stimuli provided by the government, the central bank, or a vague and unpredictable force called «animal spirits».

These functions continued in man, and mans s increased ability to learn and his improved manual dexterity enabled him to make better practical responses to these stimuli.

The level of logical response to stimuli, or «intelligence» becomes less of course as things devolve to lesser matter, but is there none the less.

«Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain: A new mathematical tool has been developed to help computational neuroscientists explore neural circuits» dynamic responses to stimuli.»

Elevated activity of the amygdala in response to stimuli leads to the neurons strengthening negative signals and weakening the processing of positive ones.

They began to fire in response to stimuli at the end of the rake, not on the monkey's hand.

The participants still had inadequate sleep - wake cycles at a score of 5 on the Rancho Los Amigos scale, where people are confused and give inappropriate responses to stimuli but are able to follow simple commands.

The scientists specifically examined proteins on the surface of the naive CD4 + T cells because these proteins play an important role in the cell development and mediate the corresponding responses to stimuli from the environment.

«It is not uncommon for stroke patients to suffer from an awareness deficit or a reduced response to stimuli on one side of their body.

Compared to transcriptional regulation, the translational control of existing mRNAs — RNAs are the molecules that carry genetic information for protein synthesis — allows a faster response to stimuli.

More surprisingly, three other paired neurons called AWB, ASK and AWC fired in adults as well, indicating a more complex response to the stimulus.

Inflammation is, generally speaking, the body's immune response to a stimulus.

This particular kinase directs cellular response to stimuli and plays a major role in inflammation.

For example, thoughts return to the break - up, you experience feelings of loss and have emotional responses to stimuli associated with the relationship, which can include flashbacks.»

These dogs are experiencing a phobic response to the stimulus.

While I am not too fond of Wikipedia, it does give a nice, down - to - earth explanation: «Counterconditioning is the conditioning of an unwanted behavior or response to a stimulus into a wanted behavior or response by the association of positive actions with the stimulus.»

Classical conditioning is also an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to «fixing» behavior problems rooted in anxiety, frustration, or fear; if we can change the physiologic response to the stimulus, then we should eliminate the animal's undesirable behavior.

Men average a 50 % concordance rate, which means that half of the time when they are experiencing a physical sexual response to stimuli, they also report feeling aroused.

However, the most efficient method to create a strong positive emotional response to stimuli is to not only condition the response with the first experience, but also to have the novel stimulus (e.g., nail trimmers) precede the pleasant one (treat), as in the following steps:

According to the researcher, this homeostatic state — the tendency to maintain internal stability, due to the mind and body's coordinated responses to any stimulus that disturbs the normal condition — is altered in individuals with addictions and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or anxiety.

Just like the classic example of dogs drooling at the ring of a dinnertime bell, it's out - and - out Pavlovian — a conditioned response to a stimulus.

Classical conditioning creates an automatic response to a stimulus.

Once we get to the place where we realize how ill prepared we are to deal with life's intricacies, we'll become a little more skeptical of the information our brains spit out in response to every stimulus.

They are also developing software to measure the complexity of the brain's responses to stimuli.