Sentences with phrase «sensory cues»

Although scientists know that humans use sensory cues to detect fat, it still remains unclear which sensory systems contribute to this ability.

To be more specific, the emotions of a person at some distance from us can affect our emotions even apart from sensory cues.

She was curious how the neurons could be involved in the natural behavior if they didn't seem to respond to the relevant sensory cues, so she decided to test their role.

As such, yoga practitioners may be more selective in their ability to attend to what matters to maintain balance, rather than weighting poor sensory cues heavily.

It's not just visual, it consists of other sensory cues such as touch.»

Birds, fish, crustaceans, and a host of other kinds of animals appear to use regional variations in the magnetic field, along with sensory cues such as sight and sound, to navigate.

However, if mechanical strains were indeed an important sensory cue for bacteria, then there has to be a molecular mechanism that senses mechanical strain.»

«Species survive because they've learned how to link sensory cues like specific sounds, smells and sights to rewards like food and water,» said Sotiris Masmanidis, the study's senior author and an assistant professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

A fixation shared by society at large, the contemplation of past events and relationships ultimately shapes our psychology moving forward - as a flicker of nostalgia, shame, or glee can be activated by a single sensory cue.

The initial retrieval of past events can be triggered by specific sensory cues, but the retrieval dynamics recapitulating an entire episode evolve independently of external cues and are supported by activity patterns intrinsically generated in cortical circuits.

If you introduce certain sensory cues such as soothing scents or relaxing music, these can become sleep cues that help little ones eventually, over time, learn to settle themselves with less parent assistance.

If a child never cries then his / her body may not be recognizing simple sensory cues, such as hunger, wetness, exhaustion, etc..

In a paper published online Nov. 16 in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, they describe the first demonstration of humans playing a simple, two - dimensional computer game using only input from direct brain stimulation — without relying on any usual sensory cues from sight, hearing or touch.

The process identified in this study — in which overexposure to a molecule results in loss of the neurons that detect that molecule — could be part of a neurological mechanism to balance the ability to detect common and rare sensory cues, according to Holy.

These findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that older adults retain the ability to make accurate judgments about others» emotions using their acquired knowledge, but not sensory cues.

The authors suggest that the turtles likely use multiple sensory cues that enable them to orient and offset displacement due to wind and ocean currents.

The variation in fish response as a function of robot speed is unlikely to be related to sensory cues generated by the body movement only, since the fish do not behave differently if the robot is fixed and beats its tail at.

«All of the different sensory cues for a certain prototype are very important.

«We use whatever sensory cues we can to get each visitor to leave her stress outside,» says Mike McAdams, the owner and designer of the ultraluxurious Lake Austin Spa Resort in Austin, Texas.

These subtle - but - soothing sensory cues will send a subliminal signal that'll help you calm down.

Black pepper: Sensory cues associated with cigarette smoking can suppress certain smoking withdrawal symptoms, including the craving for cigarettes.

The finding indicates that rich tactile feedback in VR may need to be paired with other sensory cues that explain the source of the sensation to avoid spooking users, Gonzalez - Franco says.

Ann M. Graybiel, of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, at MIT, has identified and traced neural loops going from the outer layer of the brain to a region called the striatum and back again, and revealed that these form the basis for linking sensory cues to actions involved in habitual behaviours.

A fixation shared by society at large, the contemplation of past events and relationships ultimately shapes our psychology moving forward — as a flicker of fond reminiscence, ardent shame, or jovial glee can be activated by a single sensory cue.

Essentially, we use sensory cues — smells or sounds connected with prior learning — in a way that doesn't arouse people from their sleep.

Thirty - two Berkeley undergraduates — 16 men and 16 women — volunteered to don eye masks (to block vision), earmuffs (to muffle sound), and thick kneepads, elbow pads, and work gloves (to reduce their sense of touch), leaving only their noses open to sensory cues.

Though the mice were not rehydrated, they kept licking the water source because the light created a sensory cue of water.

Meanwhile, and to the contrary, a second set of remaining «excitatory» neurons saw greater signaling activity when mice expected a reward based on exposure to the two sensory cues and got one.

The finding offers promising insight in how an external stimulus — an auditory, visual, or other sensory cue — could speed up the brain's communication with the motor system.

Therefore, both the sensory cue instructing the movement and the reward that is linked to the production of that movement can be readily anticipated.

We examine the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens, as well as the neuropeptide vasotocin, affect behavioral and brain responses to sensory cues that elicit different types of social output, from courtship to aggression to withdrawal.

This personal approach also allows for the recruitment of more brain - body stimulation with verbal, visual, tactile, and other sensory cues that further enlists the patient's participation and motivation.

«Women lose both the sensory cues and the nicotine when they quit smoking,» Cora Lee Wetherington, PhD, explained in a 2002 article by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), where she is the women and gender research coordinator.

If she verifies that dogs can alert to blood glucose drops, her next project will be to identify the sensory cue the dogs are reacting to.

MRI of the right mesial prefrontal cortex in persons with ADHD (ADD) strongly supports decreased activation (low arousal) during tasks that require inhibition of a planned motor response and timing of a motor response to a sensory cue.

MRI in persons with ADHD (ADD) also strongly supports weakened activity in the right inferior prefrontal cortex and left caudate during a task that involves timing of a motor response to a sensory cue.