It's a great measure of how scared or stressed a mouse is, and can be used to
test fear responses.
Not exact matches
When the young animals were successfully weaned, researchers gave them a series of
tests to gauge their
fear response, along with their cognitive, memory and social skills.
They then
tested the rodents»
fear relapse
responses using the motion - sensitive software that detected freezing as the tones played.
After 1 to 2 hours, each participant was then subject to a series of biochemical
tests, as well as the facial emotion recognition
test to measure
response to a series of basic emotions, such as
fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and happiness.
Later, as adults, they
tested the animals for their memory of the event and also measured their
fear response.
The day after, their memory was
tested, by checking their
fear reaction in
response to either the same noise or the same cage.
Following contextual
fear conditioning, we then
tested fear memory retrieval in
response to an auditory cue, within a different environment.
No differences in freezing
responses between non-transgenic and transgenic rats were detected during contextual
fear conditioning
testing at this early stage (F2, 21 = 1.043; p > 0.05)(Figure 6b).
Another lab member is studying the role the sigma - 1 gene plays in regulating
fear response,
testing how normal zebrafish react to a stimulus — the flash of a strobe light — and comparing that with the
response of sigma - 1 knockouts.
Then, by running each altered fish through a battery of established behavioral
tests — measuring such factors as social interactions, addictive tendencies, sleep and
fear response — researchers can see which mutations correspond most strongly with actual behavioral changes.
Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students» Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages, and Innovative Teaching Jo Boaler's 2015 book traces the research behind math anxiety, the crippling
response to high - stakes
testing and rote mathematical drills that, according to Boaler, follows students from elementary school through adulthood and results in a lifelong
fear of the subject.
Ten years after a tragic clinical trial
testing a secret
fear -
response drug, the survivors realize the experiment never ended.
As much as veterinarians help animals, still some of the
tests and treatments they perform on their patients can cause pain, anxiety and
fear responses that are hard for pets to shake.