Sentences with phrase «with mild electric shocks»

Then, when researchers left people alone in a room with a device that let them jolt themselves with mild electric shocks, they discovered that most men are so desperate for distractions that they would rather zap themselves.

Instead of the ring of a single bell, rats were exposed to two distinctly different sounds, one of which was paired with a mild electric shock, while the other was not.

But in a second memory test, wherein the animals had to learn to associate a dark chamber with a mild electric shock, the treated Alzheimer's mice did not outperform their untreated counterparts.

When an odor is paired with a mild electric shock, the flies develop short - term memories that persist for around a half - hour, intermediate - term memory that lasts a few hours and long - term memory that persists for days.

Not exact matches

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

To find out if this impairs learning, her team placed mice on a rotating platform with one section that delivered a mild electric shock.

In their experiment, participants were repeatedly shown a blue square while receiving mild electric shocks on the wrist, and learned to associate the two stimuli, so that afterwards they responded to the square with fear.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

Neurologist Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who would later collaborate with Schiff and Giacino, showed that same year, 2002, that in vegetative patients, mild electric shocks activated basic sense - perception regions but not the higher - level information processing networks (pdf) that the minimally conscious patients could access.

Assays of spontaneous cage activity were used as surrogate measures of exercise capacity and were chosen to avoid stresses associated with forced exercise (i.e., mild electric shocks).

With some mice, they tested a drug that is known to prevent the scaling down, but the drug appeared to make little difference in the ways mice remembered and avoided a location that gave them a mild electric shock.

If they turned over a rock with a snake underneath, they would receive a mild electric shock on their hands.