Sentences with phrase «how neural»

Discuss how neural process evaluates risk in the environment and triggers adaptive neural circuits which promote either social interactions or defensive behaviors

Describe how neural and behavioral data reveal a more complete picture of group psychotherapy outcomes.

MIT Technology Review (India)-- The Mystery Behind Anesthesia — Courtney Humphries — «Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience's most perplexing riddles: consciousness.»

Read about the neuroscience of storytelling and how neural coupling works — it's fascinating and will help you understand how to promote yourself in subtle ways.

This short video demonstrates how neural pathways that are traveled frequently become hardwired into habits difficult to change without deliberation and effort.

The Lu lab is interested in how activity - dependent processes during brain development fine - tune the establishment of neural circuits and how neural activity affect neural circuit wiring and cognitive behaviors.

Azim, who is a member of Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, uses a multidisciplinary approach to identify how neural circuits control skilled movements, taking advantage of modern techniques in neurobiology, genetics and computer vision to investigate how diverse neural pathways are involved in different aspects of motor control.

Some of the long term aims of the studies are (i) to contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms that control cortical development and evolution, (ii) to use the knowledge to grow neural stem cell populations of high purity and viability for therapeutic approaches and (iii) to study how neural stem cells can be activated in vivo.

We want to understand how neural stem cell proliferation is tightly controlled, both spatially and temporally, to allow for the efficient formation of the highly organized neocortex.

While these internal neural processes are being observed, the researchers learn more about how the neural system operates through a method called perturbation, which is intentionally disrupting the dynamical neural system in precise ways in order to better understand the underlying principles that control its activity.

She has pioneered understanding of how a neural circuit can generate the necessary rhythmic firing patterns that control rhythmic muscle movements such as breathing, walking, and passage of food through the gut.

Behavioural studies have demonstrated that viewing patterns differ measurably between static and dynamic images, so it is important to determine how neural activity relates to eye movements in more naturalistic settings.

Here I developed an interest in the nervous system and how neural circuits are formed.

It is not known, however, how neural activity relates to eye movement measures during the viewing of naturalistic, dynamic stimuli.

Mary Halloran, professor of zoology, works to understand how neural circuits form during embryonic development.

«The adult brain seems to carefully choreograph how neural stem cells divide, how many times they divide and whether they do so to replenish them - self or to produce neurons,» Alvarez Buylla added.

By encouraging interaction among these initiatives, researchers are learning not just how the myriad cells of the brain work individually, but how they work in concert to produce behavior — as well as how the neural circuitry of behavior is modified in response to different forms of learning.

Boldrini says that future research on the ageing brain will continue to explore how neural cell proliferation, maturation, and survival are regulated by hormones, transcription factors, and other inter-cellular pathways.

However, many questions remain about how these neural circuits develop throughout the bird's lifetime.

Research on how neural dynamics supports various computations has generally been conducted in a stable environment.

They give animals a specific stimulus — a pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how neural activity depends upon the stimulus.

Despite decades of work, neuroscientists still struggle to describe how neural activity in the brain relates to the movements being generated.

The researchers donned their thinking caps to explain how neural stem and progenitor cells differentiate into neurons and related cells called glia.

Future studies investigating how neural signals change in response to microstimulation (and how these changes vary with the precise targeting of the stimulating electrode) will be critical for increasing our understanding, not only of the physiological signatures of microstimulation, but also the microcircuit dynamics underlying memory.

New research published in the 31 October issue of Cell unveils how a neural stop signal goes askew in neurofibromatosis, one of the most common genetic causes of learning disabilities in humans.

Cell biologists at Yale University are taking advantage of this biological oddity to see how neural circuits process information.

The researchers hope that applying their technique to higher - order animals like mice will shed light on how neural networks tackle tougher tasks.

But on their own, the final values of those parameters say very little about how the neural net does what it does.

The researchers, led by Fred Gage at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California, were investigating how neural stem cells decide whether to turn into neurons or support cells.

Ellis - Davies and his team plan to use this technique with NDBF - caged neurotransmitters to chemically control the firing of a single neuron in the brain of a living mouse, allowing them to track how neural traffic moves.

This is made possible by neural networks, which have developed into an established and sophisticated IT analysis method (see box, «How neural networks function»).

In a paper published earlier this year in the online journal PLOS One, Gow and his co-author Conrad Nied, now a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, described their investigation of how the neural processes involved in the interpretation of sound combinations differ depending on whether or not a combination would be permitted in the English language.

In the future, the researchers are interested in examining how the neural substrates of social and spatial learning differ in mouse models of autism.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

«Study reveals how brain multitasks: Findings help explain how the brain pays attention to what; s important and how neural circuits may be «broken» in attention - deficit disorders.»

Cognitive scientists live on too abstract a plane to investigate love but probably think it's due to how my neural networks connect with Harriet's.

Exactly how the neural networks need to be stimulated depends upon the patient's individual injury profile and is the subject of further studies.

DEEP LEARNING How a neural network with multiple layers becomes sensitive to progressively more abstract patterns.

And in April, President Barack Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, a plan to fund new research exploring how neural regions link up.

How neural stem cell identity and potential is regulated over time has been poorly understood.

Over the past 50 years, we have learned more about the visual parts of the brain than any other areas, and we have a solid understanding of how neural activity leads to visual perception in a typical brain.

But according to Michael McKeown, a developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, fru's presence in nine small clusters of fly nerve cells — including several previously mapped by Hall as «courtship centers» — may begin to give researchers «a handle on how the neural circuits that generate complex behaviors are put together.»

A trajectory visualization shows how neural patterns associated with planning grips of different objects converged and diverged as the experimental task proceeded.

Choosing animals for tameness might be selecting for ones that have changes in how their neural crest cells function, the researchers proposed in Genetics in 2014 (SN: 8/23/14, p. 7).

One recent hypothesis is that changes in how neural crest cells work could lead to common characteristics shared by domestic animals, such as floppy ears, juvenile faces and spotted coats (SN: 8/23/14, p. 7).

Now, an international team of scientists has made inroads to understanding how genes influence brain structure and cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

It has already furnished clues as to how neural miswiring underlies neurological and mental disorders, including Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.

As part of the University of California, San Diego, weekly seminar series, neurobiologist Larry Swanson will describe how neural networks can control our emotional and motivational behaviors.

To truly see how neural activity changes during learning, we need to look bigger — at populations of neurons, rather than one neuron at a time, which has been the standard approach to date.

If scientists gained a better understanding of how neural timing works, we could employ that timing to better use.