Sentences with phrase «small electric shock»

The test measures how long mice stay put after they are placed in a chamber where they previously received small electric shocks.

This treatment involves attaching electrodes to certain parts of the brain that are connected by a wire under the skin to a box that produces small electric shocks and specified intervals.

Then, the team asked the participants to rate the amount of pain they felt from small electric shocks and gauge the pain they thought someone in an adjacent room felt from the same type of shocks.

Then they administered small electric shocks.

«Having this data allows us to better connect Steam Workshop Creators with the correct level of despair and hopelessness,» explained a disinterested - looking Gabe Newell as he carefully applied small electric shocks to the exposed brain of an employee and made notes on a clipboard.

To gain more insights into the role of genes in memory formation, Jun Cho et al. used ribosome profiling and RNA - sequencing of the mouse hippocampus after contextual fear conditioning, a process in which the mice received a small electric shock in a particular setting, forming a strong memory associating that setting with the shock.

If the predator captures you, you receive a small electric shock on the back of your hand.

The researchers subjected the animals to small electric shocks, but also taught the animals how to escape the shocks by pressing a small lever.

After being zapped with a small electric shock to start development, the embryos were implanted into the uterus of a surrogate mother — in Snuppy's case, a labrador.

The researchers then tested the animals» memories by conditioning them to associate a small electric shock with a specific cage.

By using this type of electric dog training device, you can give your dog a small electric shock when you need to correct certain behaviours.

When the rat is successful it is rewarded when it isn't it receives a small electric shock.

-- it's certainly not a meritocracy — would happily require everybody charged with any offence to wear a GPS tracking device that would issue a small electric shock as a reminder of an upcoming court date.

What could simply be a small electric shock can end in serious injuries if the worker handles electrical equipment with wet or sweaty hands.