Sentences with phrase «same electric shock»

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Rats given access to high - fat foods showed some of the same characteristics as animals hooked on cocaine or heroin — and found it hard to quit even when given electric shocks

The behavior of the shocked rats could not be distinguished from that of the control group which had experienced the same handling but no electric shock.

Mice whose fathers or even grandfathers have learned to associate the smell of cherry blossom with an electric shock become more jumpy in the presence of the same odour, and respond to lower concentrations of it than normal mice.

Neurologist Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who would later collaborate with Schiff and Giacino, showed that same year, 2002, that in vegetative patients, mild electric shocks activated basic sense - perception regions but not the higher - level information processing networks (pdf) that the minimally conscious patients could access.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

But at the same time, it represents the possibility of an electric shock, potentially dangerous.

But that same year, when I saw my first plug - in hybrid (PHEV) at the Electric Power Research Institute, after I recovered from the shock of an epiphany, I realized today's technology could get us started.

While the electric shock was the same voltage for all three settings, the women felt pain when no one held her hand.