Sentences with phrase «studying the processes underlying»

We study the processes underlying motivated cognition and their influence on self perception, social cognition and decision - making, as well as their impact on real - world outcomes.

In the goal of studying the processes underlying the transmission of attachment styles, this study focused on the role of adult attachment styles in shaping preferences toward particular styles of caregiving.

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This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

The results show that distinct genetic profiles underlie specific memory processes: The study reports, for example, associations between a transporter protein set and the process of learning as well as between a cell adhesion set and the process of memory storage.

Although the scope of this study is restricted to Europe, similar effects may apply to other regions where similar underlying processes are or have been occurring, the authors note.

«These two studies highlight the value of using an integrated multi-systems approach — including fruit flies, mice, and human cells — to discover mechanisms underlying disease processes.»

A new study in The Journal of General Physiology helps explain some of the biophysical processes underlying regulation of circadian rhythms.

More perplexing still, seismic studies have shown no evidence that ocean crust is being subducted — thrust down into the hot mantle underlying the trench — which is the process that results in quakes at other deep - sea trenches.

This process and its underlying control mechanisms have been considered by many scientists to be solely mammalian but the present study questions this assumption.

Rather than despairing that combinatorial interactions of diets, nuclear genes, and mitochondrial genes make the underlying biology of aging intractably complex, Rand and lead author Chen - Tseh Zhu said studies that explicitly embrace such multifactorial interactions can lead researchers to understand the inherent biological complexity of the aging process: Many genes, many cells, and many environments all contribute to the aging process.

«The purpose of the study has been to discover the underlying cognitive structure of religious beliefs — to find out what cognitive processes take place when religious and nonreligious people think about religion,» Kapogiannis tells me.

Their study, carried out in rats, sheds new light on pathological processes that could underlie disease progression in humans.

«Peer behavior is perhaps the most enduring social correlate of both contemporaneous and subsequent alcohol use, so studies specifically designed to explore the etiology underlying these associations, and particularly those that examine mechanistic processes, are tremendously important to the field,» added Shawn J. Latendresse, assistant professor in the department of psychology & neuroscience at Baylor University.

«I was able to gain a much deeper understanding of the relationships between human flexible behavior and the underlying involvement of human neurological processes,» says Dutra, who earned a fellowship from the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates to be involved in the study.

I therefore study the computational principles that underlie information processing and learning in spiking neural networks.»

Many of the selected genes will be used to study disease processes and underlying mechanisms.

Recent studies revealed that loss of Dicer function to process Alu RNAs to small fragmented RNAs (Alu - siRNAs) underlie the AMD pathology.

«We are currently designing a large human study that will test to what extent epigenetic changes underlie this process.»

This new, large and well - conducted study by a highly respected team of scientists helps explain the psychological processes underlying how THC increases paranoia.

In further studies, we will try to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying these processes and develop therapeutic strategies in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

This study demonstrates the complexity of the coral host biology associated with disease, and highlights the requirement for better understanding of the underlying physiological processes.

This study answers decades - old questions about the underlying microscopic processes.

The scope of the journal encompasses all of «traditional» molecular biology (including DNA replication, recombination and repair, gene expression, RNA processing, translation, and protein folding, modification, and degradation) as well as studies of the molecular interactions and mechanisms that underlie basic cellular processes.

Studies that illustrate the underlying chemistry of biological processes will also be viewed favorably.

We are interested in studying the underlying mechanisms, and to which extent this is an active vs a passive process

By looking at more proteins, the study's leader, Katheleen Gardiner at the University of Colorado in Denver, says researchers can get a better appreciation of «the greater complexity of molecular events underlying learning and memory, how components of a single pathway change in concert, and how many pathways and processes respond.»

«Visualizing how cancer cells interact with a tumor microenvironment that accurately reflects the complex biology of ovarian cancer should help us understand the mechanisms underlying metastatic progression as well as identify new therapeutics that can inhibit this process,» said clinical gynecologic oncologist Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago.

Dr Kevin Strange, president of MDI Biological Laboratory, added: «Scientists here are studying an evolutionarily diverse range of animals to gain insight into the genetic mechanisms underlying the repair and regeneration of complex tissues and why these processes are poorly active in humans.

«This very well may be true, but more studies need to be carried out to ensure that there is not a different underlying cause that might be common amongst women with a diet high in fat and processed foods,» Bernik said.

Said study author Debby Hebernick, PhD, in a press statement in 2012: «These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes underlying women's experiences of orgasm.»

Although they show no signs of erosion or other damage, the study found, the intestines of gluten - sensitive patients contain proteins that contribute to a harmful immune response, one that resembles — but is distinct from — the process underlying celiac disease.

Methodology is the study of methods and deals with the philosophical assumptions underlying the research process, while a method is a specific technique for data collection under those philosophical assumptions.

In early attempts at researching the underlying causes of dyslexia in the 1970s, there were no technological medical procedures to study brain processes that might be involved in reading normally or abnormally.

Studying computer science helped me see beyond that mystery and magic and into the people, processes, and assumptions underlying computational artifacts.»

Functional neuroimaging studies have shown a deficit in the neural mechanisms underlying phonological processing in children and adults with dyslexia.

While the current study was mainly focused on instructional decisions and the underlying knowledge upon which those decisions were made, we also wanted to determine whether the participants perceived the process of implementing the iPad apps as worthwhile.

What I find most curious about this and other studies involving important global warming issues is that some rather indirect methods are used to measure trends with little attention being paid to better understanding the underlying basics principles and processes involved.

Explain in detail your work for and on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... including the process for review of studies and other information, including the dates of key meetings... the steps taken by you, reviewers, and lead authors to ensure the data underlying the studies forming the basis for key findings of the report were sound and accurate... the requests you received for revisions to your written contribution... and... the identity of the people who wrote and reviewed... portions of the report.

This requires — as Karl Sauvant and Federico Ortino rightly point out in a recent study — consensus - building processes about underlying assumptions and objectives for investment law reform.

Evidence linking psychological stress to asthma continues to grow with our increased understanding of the natural history of asthma and the neurobiology underlying stress vulnerability.1 - 3 Stress exposure during infancy and early childhood may exert particularly robust effects on the physiological systems that respond to stress.4 - 6 Evidence from animal and human studies strongly suggests that early life adversity shapes stress neurobiology, 7 resulting in disturbed regulation of endocrine and autonomic processes (eg, hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal [HPA] axis, sympathetic - adrenal - medullary system).

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

To differentiate the processes underlying unsafe driving behavior in this study, a distinction was made between inattentive and reckless driving outcomes.

Her findings may not sound truly convincing, because she did find some discrepancies: «However, the results of this study were not entirely consistent with Beck's theory, particularly the proposition that a predominantly negative self - schema underlies the information processing of depressed individuals.»

Therefore, the purpose of our study was to examine the priming effects of secure base schema on the processing of emotional stimuli while exploring the interaction of this priming with attachment orientations, and the underlying neural mechanisms.

Furthermore, neuroimaging studies investigating the neural correlates that underlie emotional processing deficits characteristic for youth with ODD problems, such as poor fear conditioning and impaired processing of emotional faces (Glenn and Raine, 2008; Hyde et al., 2013; Blair et al., 2014; Baker et al., 2015), have suggested divergent results.

To date, virtually no studies have focused on the processes underlying online therapy [4].

These findings are highly promising and suggest that additional studies are needed to further document the range of long - term effects of early preventive intervention, as well as to identify the mediating child and parent processes underlying long - term reductions in aggressive behavior.

The above discussion illustrates the potential importance of studying parental smoking cessation and its correlates in order to understand the processes underlying adolescents» smoking behavior.

Few studies have reported the outcomes of psychological interventions that specifically address these underlying processes.

Previous studies showed that altered neuro - cognitive functions (e.g. intelligence, attentional network, processing of external stimuli) may underlie dysfunctional personality disorder features [27].