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Glanzman’s team went back to their aplysia and trained them over two days to prolong their siphon-withdrawal reflex.
MEMORIES CAN BE INJECTED AND SURVIVE AMPUTATION AND METAMORPHOSIS - FACTS SO ROMANTICMARCO ALTAMIRANOOCTOBER 20, 2020NAUTILUSHis team, attempting to create and erase a memory in aplysia, periodically delivered mild electric shocks to train the mollusk to prolong a reflex, one where it withdraws, upon touch, its siphon, a little breathing tube between the gill and the tail.
MEMORIES CAN BE INJECTED AND SURVIVE AMPUTATION AND METAMORPHOSIS - FACTS SO ROMANTICMARCO ALTAMIRANOOCTOBER 20, 2020NAUTILUSWhat’s more, the snakes have hackedtheir prey’s natural escape reflexes.
‘GREAT ADAPTATIONS’ UNRAVELS MYSTERIES OF AMAZING ANIMAL ABILITIESERIN GARCIA DE JESUSOCTOBER 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThat’s why a snapping twig can activate the fight-or-flight reflexes that make us scream.
WHY DO WE SEE GHOSTS?JAKE BITTLEOCTOBER 6, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThe position of the testes is a reflex controlled by the cremaster muscle, which brings them closer to the body in colder temperatures to maintain the warmth needed for sperm production.
SCIENCE OF ‘SEINFELD’LGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 15, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSEven if I were to be shot, the reflex action of my fingers would pull the trigger of this revolver and McGinty will die.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.
A STATISTICAL INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF EPILEPSYALEXANDER HUGHES BENNETTIt came, I think, out of just such an automatic reflex as causes an "opening" in conversation to call forth its own obvious reply.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThe reflex action on his sensitive mind first stunned, and then warped his senses.
ETIDORHPA OR THE END OF EARTH.JOHN URI LLOYDSuch a physiological relation of things is termed reflex action.
VOICE PRODUCTION IN SINGING AND SPEAKINGWESLEY MILLSWORDS RELATED TO REFLEX
- aftereffect
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- backlash
- backwash
- can of worms
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- denouement
- development
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- event
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- unintended
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- will-less
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