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And it turns out once again that spectral sensitivity is very important here.
Edith Widder: So I recorded that with an intensified video camera that has about the sensitivity of the fully dark-adapted human eye.
What if social scientists helped local police redesign their sensitivity trainings and then collaboratively wrote a manual to model future trainings?
For hundreds of dollars, I've developed a system that exceeds the sensitivity of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There's been a strong trend toward miniaturization, better sensitivity, so much so that, a few years ago, a GPS tracking device looked like this clunky box to the left of the keys.
Problem number two was, I couldn't exactly control the sensitivity of my sensors.
If you ask enough of these, you can get a general overall score of disgust sensitivity.
This data set also allowed us to statistically control for a number of things that we knew were both related to political orientation and to disgust sensitivity.
What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more votes.
No matter where you look, what this is plotting is the size of the relationship between disgust sensitivity and political orientation, and no matter where we looked, we saw a very similar effect.
Other labs have actually looked at this as well using different measures of disgust sensitivity, so rather than asking people how easily disgusted they are, they hook people up to physiological measures, in this case skin conductance.
But even with all these data linking disgust sensitivity and political orientation, one of the questions that remains is what is the causal link here?
And I said, "With all due respect, I don't do sensitivity training with the Marines.
Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training.
And some people will say, "He needs sensitivity training."
My argument is, he doesn't need sensitivity training.
(Noise of shooting arrow) (Applause) A bow may function in a simple mechanism, but in order to make a good bow, a great amount of sensitivity is required.
A major challenge of coping with PTSD is sensitivity to triggers, physical and emotional stimuli that the brain associates with the original trauma.
What we've done, then, is we modulate the sensitivity of the reflex, the modeled spinal reflex, with the neural signal, so when I relax my muscles in my residual limb, I get very little torque and power, but the more I fire my muscles, the more torque I get, and I can even run.
So there are important changes happening in the structure and function of the brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, and these are areas that are crucial for things like self-control, decision-making, emotion processing and regulation and sensitivity to reward and risk, all of which can affect how you function in a stressful circumstance, like a police interrogation.
Their extreme sensitivity makes them candidates to be used to detect gravitational waves in future space-based detectors.
First of all, they showed high degrees of social sensitivity to each other.
This system is similar for everyone, but the sensitivity and efficacy of these brain circuits determines how much you feel and cope with pain.
This is thought to have evolved through transparent cells covering the opening to prevent infection, allowing the inside of the eye to fill with fluid that optimizes light sensitivity and processing.
People with hypothyroidism see symptoms in weight gain, sluggishness, sensitivity to cold, swollen joints and feeling low.
Our sensitivity to these odors and interpretation of them as bad smells may be an evolutionary mechanism warning us of rotten food and the presence of disease.
Posture can even influence your emotional state and your sensitivity to pain.
Besides causing butterflies in your stomach, this brain-gut connection can disturb the natural rhythmic contractions that move food through your gut, leading to irritable bowel syndrome, and can increase your gut sensitivity to acid, making you more likely to feel heartburn.
The degree to which a unit of insulin lowers the blood sugar helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity.
If insulin sensitivity goes down, that's known as insulin resistance.
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