Sentences with phrase «brain scientists in»

A tiny, do - it - yourself microscope — which can be built from instructions posted online — has opened a new universe to brain scientists in at least 200 labs worldwide, and the device has earned its creators at UCLA an $ 8.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Brain scientists in Russia have found preliminary evidence that collectivism is associated with a unique...

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In the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal corIn the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal corin the brain and spinal cord.

In fact, «The stereotype of the mad scientist talking to themselves, lost in their own inner world, might reflect the reality of a genius who uses all the means at their disposal to increase their brain power,» she sayIn fact, «The stereotype of the mad scientist talking to themselves, lost in their own inner world, might reflect the reality of a genius who uses all the means at their disposal to increase their brain power,» she sayin their own inner world, might reflect the reality of a genius who uses all the means at their disposal to increase their brain power,» she says.

As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

By working with scientists who specialize in the brain and the immune system, Kelley hopes to find out what these conditions have in common so the team can eventually figure out what causes them.

In the future, we'll be able to finally multitask in a way that works, despite what brain scientists say about our brains only focusing on one tasIn the future, we'll be able to finally multitask in a way that works, despite what brain scientists say about our brains only focusing on one tasin a way that works, despite what brain scientists say about our brains only focusing on one task.

In 2009, Carnegie Mellon scientists discovered that reading actually rewires the brain.

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

It still might sound a little sci - fi, but scientists and entrepreneurs are already experimenting with wearable devices that use electrical stimulation to make your brain work better in a host of intriguing ways.

«We'll put the best scientists in the world on these problems, to build a thing or code a thing, or invent a thing,» McCauley says, adding, «We want to borrow their brains and put them underwater.»

The scientists found that when individuals completed a word puzzle, right before a moment of insight, a cluster of cells located in the superior temporal gyrus — in the right hemisphere of the brain — show significant activity.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

This is why a few scientists I spoke with think holding my daughter releases a lot of natural opioids in my brain; that'd explain why it feels so good and satisfying.

This falls in line with what scientists know about how the brain navigates space and improves memory in the real world.

University of Toronto brain scientist Cheryl Grady has led the way in studying the performance of the dorolateral prefrontal cortex, key to our ability to concentrate.

One day, scientists hope to use sensors in the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

Drs. Richard Davidson, Sara Lazar, Jon - Kabat - Zinn and many other scientists have a shown profound changes in the brain with meditation and mindfulness practices.

But that chip inside the head could soon vanish as scientists say we are poised to gain a much greater understanding of the brain, and, in turn, technologies that empower brain computer interfaces.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

«All we can hope for is serendipity — that a scientist as inquisitive as the one looking in the lobster's mouth and marvelling at S pandora will come across evil, maybe from the preserved brains of those afflicted....

Unfortunately, your way of thinking has been proven to be detrimental over and over again by those Atheists with working brains (only 8 % of scientists claim to have a belief system in the super natural).

So the scientist concludes that the real decision is just some autonomic electrical flicker in the brain, while the apparent conscious «decision» is just a posterior accretion, a kind of proprioceptive hallucination.

People having near death experiences has been going on for a while and hasn't stumped scientists as much as it's accepted that people hallucinate when the brain is randomly firing off synapses in it's death throes,.

Future scientists will marvel at their tiny brains and place them somewhere around cro - magnon in development.

Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.

Science also requires an influx of new, educated young scientists, and poisoning American children's brains through miseducation has resulted in cell and molecular biologists being imported from Asia.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

Under the guise of the scientific notion, I defy science to reproduce the human brain, create DNA that matches with another person, create a universe that has order, make humans with all the complexities all the same with identical DNA factors, and every human with the same finger prints as another, and when an atheistic scientist can do that, I will rethink my level of thoughts in regards to God.

For scientists, body / soul dualism is out — but they're pretty happy talking about consciousness in non-bodily terms, and leaving it to the philosophers to explain its interaction with our brains in the way Descartes had to explain the soul.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

In August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to acIn August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to acin France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to act.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

Scientist showed that being spiritual is just a chemical reaction in the brain, so they have proven that spirituality is about the brain and isn't real.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

These scientist, and doctors, can not remake skin, bone, eyes, brains, oval eggs, sperm, none of the sort, so they have no real answer to create a life other than how procreation works, where again what, and how is the very first man, or woman, animal, other creatures, either in the sea, or creeping on this earth was originally created from, as where did they first come from?

I don't want to get hung up in the brain at all, but you struck me as an agnostic scientist so I've been writing to you as one.

Scientists in Switzerland have designed the fist bionic limb that can transmit sensory data directly to the brain.

Until very recently, impact sensors - accelerometers measuring the forces which, when transmitted to the brain, cause sports - related concussions - were only used by scientists in conducting research.

Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

And, in recent and evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experience.

Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.

Developmental scientists consider it to be one of the most massive reorganizations in the lifespan, changing the brains, endocrine systems, behaviors, identities, relationships, and more, of everyone involved.

New evidence suggest there really is no negative effect on the brain from having a baby, in fact, one scientist suggests the complete opposite.

The new ingredients in the formulas had been sought for years, ever since scientists discovered that certain fatty acids found in breast milk and food are key building blocks for a baby's brain and eyes.

And while scientists can't point to a «happiness» gene or isolate a «moody» nodule in the brain, an abundance of research shows that your baby's temperament — her basic emotional and social style — is hardwired in her brain.

One is early childhood when the brain is malleable, so plastic... and the other is in adolescence that is because of a phenomenon which scientists call meta cognition which means thinking about thinking.