Sentences with phrase «response to stimuli at»

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

Not exact matches

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

As part of their shopping experience, customers are equipped with brainwave sensors that allow Nike to track their response to different stimuli at the shop.

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.

They have remained at or near historically low levels for many months, largely in response to the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.

So I went back and repeated it, with the lamp intentionally switched off this time, and the animal would not react to the (absent) stimulus at all, which is exactly what you would expect, but is also showed that the animal was not using some other cue to figure out the «right» response.

If there is any action (or ethics) that emerges from such a theology, it is fairly arbitrary and does not proceed out of interior soliloquy at all, but comes rather in response to surface stimuli.

«Often I'm asked what my definition of autism is and, of course, there is the standard definition: children who have problems with communicating, repetitive motion, abnormal toy play, social skills, are delayed,» says Dr. Kartzinel, «But really what I look at in a child is how many responses to stimuli the child responds to abnormally.»

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

To see if this is true of dolphins, too, Ridgway's team gave the dolphins a more complex task — in which they had to make different sounds in response to two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance tesTo see if this is true of dolphins, too, Ridgway's team gave the dolphins a more complex task — in which they had to make different sounds in response to two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance testo make different sounds in response to two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance testo two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance test.

«Types of stimuli that people are evolutionarily prepared to fear, such as caged spiders, snakes, or heights, evoke a visceral response even when, at a cognitive level, they are recognized to be harmless,» he says.

Now a study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) confirms that inflammation — an immune response that develops when the body attempts to protect itself from harmful stimuli — plays a role in the onset of delirium.

Joachim Vosgerau at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues studied the effect of mental processes on habituation — the weakening of our response to a stimulus when it is repeated.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

The group also plans to look at methylation patterns of other genes in the serotonin system that may contribute to the brain's response to threatening stimuli.

Repeatedly linking a very positive stimulus to an unrelated one can create positive associations over time — perhaps the most famous example of this kind of conditioned response is Pavlov's dogs, who salivated at the sound of a bell after being exposed to multiple pairings of meat and the bell sound.

«Exercise pre-conditioning may improve the muscle repair response in older adults to stimuli such as acute periods of atrophy / inactivity and / or damage,» said Gianni Parise, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work and Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

«Understanding the dynamic distribution of ABA in plants in response to environmental stimuli is of particular importance in elucidating the action of this important plant hormone,» says Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

Postdoctoral scholar Farran Briggs worked with Mangun and Professor Martin Usrey at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience to measure signaling through single nerve connections, or synapses, in monkeys while they performed a standard cognitive test for attention: pressing a joystick in response to seeing a stimulus appear in their field of view.

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.

Depending on different parameters, such as the particle / wall charge and the extension of the charged regions on the particle surface, our units can form surface layers with different densities (and possibly different responses to external stimuli): sometimes particles assemble into close - packed, hexagonally ordered crystalline aggregates, sometimes they form open, square - like layers, sometimes they do not assemble at all.

«Anhedonic people do not have problems correctly perceiving and processing the information contained in a melody (such as intervals or rhythms) and present a normal pleasure response to other pleasant stimuli (such as money), but do not enjoy musical stimuli,» explains Noelia Martínez - Molina, researcher at the IDIBELL - UB group and lead author of the study.

We generated spiking responses from 100 fibers at a 100 kHz sample rate, with the same distribution of center frequencies (CFs) and spontaneous rates (SRs) as in that paper (see section «AN Model» below); n = 85 fibers were used based on reliably evoked responses to the natural stimuli [10], [12].

Thus, grooming of the other body parts might rather aim at transferring the pollen into the corbiculae for homeward transport than being a response to the stimulus of pollen deposition.

Topics covered will include how the immune system and commensal microbes interact in the context of health and disease; how dendritic cells respond to infectious or inflammatory stimuli and the roles they play in the induction and polarization of adaptive immune responses against pathogens; how the innate immune pathways regulate inflammation at mucosal barrier tissue sites and how the macrophages are involved in intestinal inflammation.

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.

Among their work, the investigators are looking at how ROS affects gene regulatory responses in cells that are exposed to elevated glucose levels or other stimuli.

Thus, the endocrine system is crucial for our survival and health, and, because many crucial hormones are secreted in the brain, and our brain activity and response to external stimuli can affect hormone release, your mind and your environment are very important to the health of the individual at large.

These effects are mediated at least in part via p38 MAP kinase, thereby providing multiple means for rapid control of Oct4 transactivation in response to complex extracellular stimuli throughout early development.

Agility training helps build pathways when you look at the brain for fast responses to various stimuli.

At the beginning of the new president's term, Congress passed economic stimulus funding in response to the financial collapse of 2008.

To a dog the noise of a door bell means nothing at first (neutral stimulus), but with time, he starts associating it with people coming inside the home (conditioned stimulus) and starts getting excited / nervous / anxious (conditioned response)

To dogs a leash initially means nothing (neutral stimulus), but with time, they start associating it with walks (conditioned stimulus) and gets excited at its sight (conditioned response)

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov figured out that the dogs he was studying could be conditioned to associate a stimulus (for the purpose of his experiment, a bell) that had nothing to do with eating, at mealtime, and thus elicit a mealtime - appropriate response (salivating).

I will now look at you, where's my treat, where's my treat?!!» This therefore, accomplishes three things: it works to change the dog's emotional response towards stimuli yielding a more confident dog, it builds a better bond with owner and it helps achieve better control, a win - win situation for all!

They do not bark in response to auditory stimuli like dogs with normal hearing, but they may bark at visual stimuli or at sounds that they can still hear if they are not fully deaf.

It's important to make a distinction between behaviors (like sitting, staying, jumping, or demand barking), which animals use to produce consequences; and displays of emotions (like wagging tails, twirling in delight when you come home at the end of the day, growling or baring teeth), which are responses to various stimuli.

It's the fight or flight response at work again, trying to eliminate any unnecessary stimuli around you to deal with the issue at hand — in this case, your anxiety.

NOTE: While the constant «management» of it as some kind of meaningless noise implies otherwise, the reality is that babies and young children just don't fret and cry for no reason at all, as if these were defective responses to some kind of stimulus that «should» provide a different kind of response.

Adults who had been categorized as behaviorally inhibited at the age of 2 years exhibited a higher amygdala activation in response to unknown vs familiar faces16 compared with adults who were uninhibited as children, consistent with the notion that novel or ambiguous environmental stimuli of potential biological relevance activate the amygdala.17 Turning to genes that can influence the neurobiological bases of the processing of emotions, 2 common alleles, the short (S) and the long (L), in a variable repeat sequence of the serotonin transporter (5 - HTT) promoter polymorphism (5 - HTTLPR) on human chromosome 17q11 have been differently associated with greater amygdala activity in response to angry or fearful faces18 in healthy adults.

They have remained at or near historically low levels for many months, largely in response to the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.