Sentence examples for rat behavior from inspiring English sources

If this puppet-master behavior were not strange enough, scientists have now found out how the parasite may change rat behavior.

The data are preliminary, but intriguing, says parasitologist Joanne Webster of Imperial College London, who has studied the effects of Toxoplasma on rat behavior.

Over the past decade, scientists in a number of cities have launched efforts to better understand rat behavior and evolution, and the role they play in spreading disease.

This article introduces a simulation model of rat behavior in the elevated plus-maze, designed through a Decision trees approach using Classification and Regression algorithms.

Tolman, for example, wrote that "everything important in psychology … can be investigated in essence through the continued experimental and theoretical analysis of the determiners of rat behavior at a choice point in a maze" (1938, p. 34).

Beyond the goal of establish an appropriate simulational model, extracted rules also reveal important regularities associated to the rat behavior previously ignored by other models, i.e. that specific rat behaviors in the elevated plus-maze are time dependent.

She plans to continue to use the system to track dopamine signaling during sex and other rat behaviors and says that other researchers have expressed interest in using it to study anxiety and seizure disorders.

In order to evaluate the difference between CMS exposure and drug administration, several rat behaviors were observed and required in an open field.

We are the first to report 26 rat behaviors assessing cognitive deficits in a delayed non-match to sample (DNMS) paradigm, correlated with the expression of various cellular proteins that regulate the mechanisms of cell death and plasticity.

They killed the cells of the nucleus accumbens by chemical injection in one group of rats and compared those rats' behavior to that of healthy ones.

The resulting loss of dopamine was clearly evidenced in the rats' behavior: For example, when put in an upright cylinder, rats tried to climb out, but they were much less likely to use the paw on the side affected by the Sry reduction.