Sentences with phrase «brain scientists define»

Brain scientists define learning as a process that will modify a subsequent behavior, and memory as the record left by a learning process.

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In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning.

And thanks to an unprecedented study now being launched, scientists will be able to examine those changes in depth, using MRI to define what normal growth looks like — and helping clarify what can go awry in teenage brains.

Yvan Campos, associate scientist in the St. Jude Department of Genetics and the paper's first author, was instrumental in defining Alix's precise role in the brain's choroid plexus and linking that role to disease.

The agency named a panel of 15 leading brain experts and, in a series of public workshops, let the scientists define the project.

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Scientists, philosophers and theologians have sought to understand and define the mind and its properties — specifically, whether it is separate from the brain and physical body or a part of the brain.

These are stored in what scientists call neural networks in our brain, and what shamans define as the Luminous Energy Field.

We think that we know what our cats are saying, but scientists have actually looked into the brain areas associated with different vocalizations in the cat to try to better define the positive and negative meanings.

Probably one of the most successful Norte Maar performance collaborations to date, The Brodmann Areas brought together an array of artists and a neuro - scientist to present a ballet that dives literally head first into the gaps and synapses that define the 52 areas designating the regions of the cerebral cortex of the brain.