(n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
(n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
(v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
(v. i.) To be bewildered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(2) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
(3) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
(4) The Learning behavior on a water maze was observed in Wistar-JCL rats which were 10 weeks of age at the beginning of tests.
(5) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(6) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(7) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(8) In the radial maze task, both VE(-) and VE(+) animals required as many trials to reach the learning criterion as control animals.
(9) Spatial working memory was examined in an 8-arm radial water maze task 6 weeks after bulbectomy.
(10) Grafts taken from older (E21) donors did produce a short-lasting improvement in the T-maze alternation performance, replicating the previous report.
(11) Further studies are needed to clarify the reasons of the marked age-related difference in the effects of DSP-4 on the performance of water maze task in rats.
(12) Experimental data are presented on the formation and retention during 24 hours of a motor alimentary conditioned reflex (MCR) in a T-maze, in rats 4--5 months and 1,5--2 months old.
(13) Prior to analysis the spatial learning ability of the aged rats was assessed in the Morris' water maze test.
(14) Bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in the rat cause deficits in the water maze, a spatial memory paradigm.
(15) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(16) The animals were tested for learning ability in a Morris water maze task starting 6 or 12 weeks post-COLCH.
(17) Chronic exposure of rats to low levels of halothane during development, a treatment which retards synaptogenesis, was found to cause a long-term impairment of choice accuracy in the radial-arm maze.
(18) A simple T-maze was utilized to evaluate the aversive effects of exposure to three levels of static magnetic field (0, 1.5, and 4 T).
(19) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
(20) These data suggest that doses of NMDA receptor channel antagonists sufficient to disrupt hippocampal long-term potentiation and radial arm maze performance will also disrupt delayed conditional discrimination.
Mazy
Definition:
(a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(2) Eden Hazard’s mazy run through the middle started the move.
(3) When a branch of Mazi Mas – an enterprise that creates employment opportunities for women from migrant and refugee communities - opened in Sydney, if baffled insurance companies and regulators.
(4) Belgium’s threat came in a variety of ways – woven passing moves one moment, mazy dribbles the next, whipped crosses hoicked in from the flanks at times.
(5) Fortunately, says director Maggie Lloyd, it got a sympathetic ear from the “forward thinking” City of Sydney and could rely on the track record of the original Mazi Mas in the UK.
(6) John Stones made one mazy run that tore straight through a home midfield that parted too easily, and in Deulofeu, Barkley, Osman and the marauding Romelu Lukaku Everton had a front four that terrorised the City defence.
(7) I would just not commit that there will never be any changes in them,” Sessions told Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii during his confirmation hearing in Washington.
(8) Frontline ambulance workers at the scene of the blasts had experienced a “nightmare” and were being provided with psychological support, Mazy said.
(9) Barkley’s involvement always give England a more exciting feel and his contribution was also a reminder that a perfectly executed pass can be every bit as beautiful as a shot into the top corner or a mazy, dribbling run through the opposition defence.
(10) 73 min: Tevez ends a mazy run in from the left with a terrible shot from 15 yards out.
(11) Renaud Mazy, the managing director of St Luc hospital in Woluwe, said an emergency operation planned since the lockdown last November had been instigated.
(12) We are conveying specifics through classified channels,” wrote Warner and his colleagues Ron Wyden of Oregon, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and independent Angus King of Maine.
(13) Although they parted ways creatively in 1998 (Topley-Bird has made three solo albums and worked with Massive Attack and Gorillaz), they've been in regular contact because of their daughter, Mazy, who is only one month younger than Maxinquaye.
(14) At one stage McNair roved forward on a mazy run that lifted the crowd but normal service resumed when Lingard blasted a regulation cross out for a Saints kick.
(15) The Senators signing the letter are: Ron Wyden (D-Or), Mark Udall (D-Co), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), Mark Kirk (R-Il), Dick Durbin (D-Il), Tom Udall (D-NM), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Jon Tester (D-Mt), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Dean Heller (R- Nev),Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Patty Murray (D-Wash), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chris Coons (D-Del), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn), Max Baucus (D-Mont), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).
(16) Dervite headed another Spearing cross wide, but Bolton were far from secure at the back themselves, especially when the skilful 18-year-old winger Gray had the ball, as he showed by following a mazy run with a curling shot that Lonergan did well to beat away.
(17) 8.30pm GMT 43 min: Adam Johnson picks up the ball on the inside-right, cuts inside and emabarks on a mazy dribble that takes him into the Chelsea penalty area.
(18) Domínguez's mazy dribble exposed United's poor defending in the early stages, with only a superb Nemanja Vidic saving tackle delaying him from opening the scoring.