Joy Hirsch, J. Adam Noah, Xian Zhang, Swethasri Dravida, Ilias Tachtsidis: Identification of
Neural Systems Involved in Interpersonal Eye - to - Eye Contact: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Investigation.
Since
neural systems involved in movement control are tightly interconnected, disease in one part of the brain leads to consequential, sometimes compensatory, reactions in other parts.
Mundy adds that interactive avatars will be helpful in other areas of social psychology by allowing us to simulate social interactions and observe
the neural systems they involve.
Our study provides novel, fcMRI - based, support for
a neural system involving low - level auditory and visual cortices.
Not exact matches
Experiments so far with
neural dust motes have only
involved the peripheral nervous
system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous
system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
«By revealing the dynamics of facial action through machine vision
systems,» said Bartlett, «our approach has the potential to elucidate «behavioral fingerprints» of the
neural - control
systems involved in emotional signaling.»
Neural prosthetics, one of the newest faces of biomedical engineering,
involves a wide variety of prosthetic implants that interface with the nervous
system to replace the body's damaged circuitry.
The olfactory
system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and
neural pathways, including those
involved in memory, emotion and movement.
«This... demonstrates like never before the power of
neural machine translation,» says Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada, who helped invent one of the critical components of the new
system several years ago, but who was not
involved in the current work.
The new findings may also have implications for the treatment of several disorders
involving similar
neural systems, including one Alzheimer's disease.
Reinforcement of addictive substance use and stress signaling
involves common
neural systems, including the brain reward center.
While the experiments so far have
involved the peripheral nervous
system and muscles, the
neural dust motes could work equally well in the central nervous
system and brain to control prosthetics, the researchers say.
Why it matters: Parkinson's disease is marked by the loss of dopamine in the brain's nigrostriatal
neural pathway, which is one of four major pathways for this hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain; the disease primarily affects part of the motor
system involved in the production and coordination of movement.
CSNE member, Mehrdad Jazayeri, and his research team at MIT study
neural system dynamics
involved in sensory and motor coordination, which are key to performing everyday tasks.
Amphimedon possesses homologues of bilaterian proteins
involved in nervous
system development (for example, elav - and musashi - like RNA - binding proteins,
neural transcription factors), pre - and post-synaptic organization (for example, Discs large) 42, endogenous and exogenous signalling (for example, G - protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs)-RRB-, and neuroendocrine secretion, although bilaterian peptide hormones are not detected (Supplementary Note 8.9).
This
system was used to identify micro-RNAs
involved in the process of
neural commitment (see Boissart et al., 2012).
The resemblance of the right - lateralised activation profile in processing non-local dependencies in music with the left - hemispheric
system in language moreover suggests that processing hierarchical structures in music and language
involves qualitatively similar mechanisms subserved by domain - specific
neural subpopulations.
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated a
neural prosthetic
system that can improve a memory by «writing» information «codes» (based on a patient's specific memory patterns) into the hippocampus of human subjects via an electrode implanted in the hippocampus (a part of the brain
involved in making new memories).
«The understanding of the brain we can get from such a
system will hopefully lead to new therapeutic strategies
involving neural stimulation of the brain, which we can implement with this new neurotechnology.»
The
neural circuits that are
involved in these bi-directional relationships include several
systems that influence peripheral processes relevant to pain perception.
The
neural - structural processes of canalization actually
involve triggering and altering genetic code, and are quite complex
involving neuro - modulators and secondary and tertiary feedback
systems (Kandel, 2007).