Behavioral sensitivity to novel object features can be modulated by high-level knowledge of function

The Cadmium Toxicity in Helianthus annuus can be Modulated by Endosymbiotic Fungus (Piriformospora indica)

Cadmium (Cd), as a widespread metal pollutant, readily accumulates in the food chain due to its easy absorption and high mobility. The endophytic fungi are cosmopolitan microorganisms that occur widely in association with plants in a heavy metal stress environment. A current pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of Piriformospora indica, as a root endosymbiotic fungus, on the b...

Can object category-selectivity in the ventral visual pathway be explained by sensitivity to low-level image properties?

Can Function Points be Mapped to Object Points?

Object points is a new software size metric that has emerged to cope with recent developments in software engineering, and to overcome the deficiencies of the traditional lines of code and function points size metrics. Moreover, object points has been utilized as the basis for several software cost estimation models with promising improvements in the accuracy of estimates. However, the infancy ...

Neural Processing of Calories in Brain Reward Areas Can be Modulated by Reward Sensitivity

A food's reward value is dependent on its caloric content. Furthermore, a food's acute reward value also depends on hunger state. The drive to obtain rewards (reward sensitivity), however, differs between individuals. Here, we assessed the association between brain responses to calories in the mouth and trait reward sensitivity in different hunger states. Firstly, we assessed this in data from ...

Behavioral Sensitivity of Temporally Modulated Striatal Neurons

Recent investigations into the neural mechanisms that underlie temporal perception have revealed that the striatum is an important contributor to interval timing processes, and electrophysiological recording studies have shown that the firing rates of striatal neurons are modulated by the time in a trial at which an operant response is made. However, it remains unclear whether striatal firing r...