Sentences with phrase «so images of the brain»

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Our brains are very good at remembering spacial information, so if you can imagine yourself walking through a place you know well, you can deposit the images of cards you are memorizing along the way.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

cba@66: By chance (or natural genius), you have positioned the two mirrors so they create a rudimentary hologram of the fire, which your brain interprets as a 3 - D image.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

So when we were getting these images of cocaine abusers, they looked like the brain images of stroke patients.

Still, as the ability to deliver higher resolution images to the brain improves, so would the effectiveness of the prosthesis.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / Neurostockimages Eager eaters know that gulping a Slurpee or inhaling a sundae can cause that brief seizing sensation known in the not - so - technical literature as «brain freeze» or «ice cream headache.

It was so consistent with our images of living human brains.

Our brain is so good at identifying contours and objects in images that it is sometimes deceived into seeing them even if they do not actually exist (such as the edges of the blue triangle in the foreground of the figure).

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

This technique can capture an image of the working brain in just a couple of seconds and locate areas of activity down to a millimeter or so — about one - twentieth of an inch.

According to the principle, the brain's cortex manages the tremendous amount of sensory information — images, sounds, smells, etc. — flooding it constantly by reformatting the influx into various components called features, so that it takes very few neurons to process it.

â $ A positive self - image can stimulate the reward center of our brain, so if we like the way we look, it can impact us emotionally, and help us feel better about more than just our appearance, â $ explains Vivian Diller, PhD, a psychologist in private practice in New York City who specializes in self - esteem, body image, and beauty.

In the seven and a half years since that horrible image of pouring boiling water on my newborn invaded my tired, hormonal - crazed brain, I still haven't had any real - life conversations with moms about this postpartum symptom because the truth is, so few people talk about it.

So for example, when we have a — a fearful feeling, that creates an image of the brain that can be totally realistic or abstract, it doesn't matter, but it creates an image in the brain and then we can change — that image is usually in Technicolor.

Michele Rosenthal: And so what we do in NLP is instead of talking and talking and talking about it, we take the — the feeling and the image that that creates in the brain and we literally start changing the image.

Basically, I've been using MRI to image a series of brains from different species and 3D printing them so students can pick up and get up close and personal with the central nervous system (minus the goo).

It's been quite the year so far for the horror genre with an array of films that have scared us to our core, delighted us with their dark humour and mesmerised us with images that will be lodged in our brains forever more.

The idea is that audio and visual channels work separately in the brain, so when content is presented simultaneously by way of audio and visual channels — say, on - screen images and voice over — the information is processed faster and with greater ease.

«The reason I think I do images that require so much time is that I feel the physical work itself lets some other thing that came through, letting something unconsciously seep through, some subtlety that my brain was not capable of figuring out...»

So now that the image is cemented in your brain, you can go easy knowing that a mist of saliva on your slice of cake probably isn't going to hurt you.