Tag Archives: discrimination

Prefrontal-auditory communication in fear discrimination

Identifying neural networks that infer safety versus danger is of great interest in the scientific field. Fear generalization reduces the chances of an animal’s survival and leads to psychiatric diseases, such as post-traumatic stress disorders and phobias

Authentication of Egyptian blossom honeys

Floral discrimination of clover and citrus honeys from Egypt against ‘’unknown’’ honeys from Greece based on 11 easily assessable physicochemical parameters and discriminant analysis

Twenty-two blossom honey samples (clover and citrus honeys) were collected from the greater Cairo area during harvesting year 2014-2015. The main purpose of the present study was to characterize the aforementioned honey types and to investigate whether

Behavioral detection of nicotine via cigarette smoking

Perceiving nicotine’s effects in the brain (i.e. interoceptive stimulus effects) helps explain why one billion people worldwide enjoy tobacco smoking and, perhaps, why repeated smoking leads a smoker to becoming dependent on tobacco.  Such effects are typically