A more complex stimulus reaction time test, such as a go/no-go or choice reaction time, 28 should be employed because the simple reaction time test we used was not sufficiently sensitive to differentiate between groups and individuals.
The paw withdrawal latency comprised the time from the start of the beam light until the animal withdrew the paw from the heat stimulus (reaction time was measured to 0.01 s).
With shape stimuli, reactions to global targets were significantly faster than reactions to local targets (t 91) = 2.90, p < 0.01, d = 0.30) in the focused attention condition.
With letter stimuli, reactions to global targets were significantly faster than reactions to local targets for both attention conditions (both t 91) > 2.56, both p < 0.05, both d > 0.26).
Of them, stimulus response, inflammatory reaction and regulation of apoptosis, etc. were stronger in AHF occurrence than in LR, but ion homeostasis, hormonal response, regulation of cell division and proliferation, etc. were weaker in AHF occurrence.
A hypothesis was proposed that such a network function as a stimuli-reaction classifier where dynamics of core molecules dictate downstream transcriptional activities, hence physiological responses against stimuli.
The used a score based in the following variables : reaction to acoustic stimuli, reaction to pain, body posture, eye opening, pupil size, pupil response to light, position and movements of eyeballs and oral automatisms to predict mortality at 21 days.
In the reaction time conditions, i.e. Intern and Extern, we first eliminated outliers that were unlikely to represent physiologically interpretable reactions to the visual stimuli: reaction times >2000 ms and <150 ms were regarded as random or anticipatory responses (Hultsch et al., 2002).
With decreasing coherence of the stimuli swim reactions against the stimulus direction increased, until at a level of 40% coherence, both response types were equally present.
