Sentences with phrase «to a particular stimulus»

The remaining possibility is that food cravings develop due to the consistent association of certain foods with particular stimuli or social contexts (special occasions).

Once a dog has passed his Socialization Period (see Your Puppy's Development) it does not matter that a dog has not had a negative experience with particular stimuli.

That's just how your body and mind are responding to a particular stimulus.

By mechanical causality I mean that which operates without any purpose of valuation except immediate and habitual response to a particular stimulus.

Primitive reflexes are reflex actions originating in the central nervous system that are exhibited by normal infants, but not neurologically intact adults, in response to particular stimuli.

«Nobody has actually shown that that particular stimulus in a human being is a valid way to say, «Yes, this person has become hyperalgesic,»» Angst says.

The researchers monitored groups of neurons in the visual processing areas of macaque monkeys as the animals paid attention to one particular stimuli and ignored others around them.

«Our study showed that the timing of VTA stimulation is important — when stimulation happens immediately after an action is performed, the monkey is more likely to perform that action — and that it applies «value» to a particular stimulus and motivates future behavior,» says Vanduffel, who is an assistant professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

The researchers also found that activation of ESP1 - responding neurons in the region of the brain called the hypothalamus enhanced sexual behavior in female mice, even in the absence of actual ESP1, by using various tools to chemically or optically control neural activities, combined with a process called the TRAP method, which allows them to selectively manipulate neurons responding to a particular stimulus.

This might influence the way animals perceive the strength of a particular stimulus, or the way they store a memory of it, or other aspects of its processing.

These vocalizations are evoked by the presence of a predator and so are closely linked in time with a particular stimulus.»

Sensory systems process their particular stimuli in specific brain circuits and pathways.

But what we can say is that the fact that the gluteus maximus gets bigger through a particular stimulus has no bearing on its core evolutionary role, (or on the evolutionary story of the organism as a whole).

Focused attention practices teach students how to breathe deeply while focusing on a particular stimulus.

It does not teach your dog what they should DO: Trainers and people who use aversive training, focus so much time on stopping behaviors that they forget to focus on training the dog what they should do or how they should react to particular stimuli.

If the pet is removed from the situation before it has reached a non-reactive, relaxed state, the pet can actually be made more fearful and reactive to that particular stimulus or situation, therefore sensitizing rather than desensitizing the pet to the situation and making the problem worse.

We can measure how a dog responds to a particular stimulus; a dog may be labeled «dog aggressive» if they are likely to attack other dogs.

In a similar fashion, your dog may have learned to associate something negative with a particular stimulus.

Stimulus - specific anxiety takes place in the presence of a particular stimulus such as thunderstorms.