Sentences with phrase «what brain mechanisms»

What brain mechanisms are involved in this cognitive skill?

Yet, how his brain responds during cold exposure and what brain mechanisms may endow him with this resistance have not been studied — until now.

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The effect also provides a good way to learn about what's happening in the brain in people with synaesthesia, with vEAR's high prevalence making it easier to investigate the mechanisms behind such cross-sensory perception.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

She notes that this study looked at only static body postures, but together with subsequent experiments — including one in which people watched videos of gymnasts — it offers a possible mechanism for how the brain predicts what will happen a few seconds ahead of what we experience.

«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»

So, what happens that the researchers were looking at, this moment, when the bees suddenly lost weight, and they found that it is dictated by the queen bee's pheromones, which trigger this insulin mechanism in the bees» brains that causes them to lose weight.

«What this opens up are many questions regarding the epigenetic mechanisms that mediate cross-generational brain effects,» said Dr. Hurd.

«When the brain is injured or damaged in some way, we can damage that programming mechanism, and when we do that we have what we call apraxia of speech,» Duffy said.

The ultimate goal is to «try to understand what might be the mechanism that lowers the stress response» in larger brained birds, says Michaela Hau of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Munich, Germany.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

Eye movements and the mechanisms by which the brain controls and processes what we choose to look at have been a major focus of neuroscience researchers for decades.

They reasoned that some regulatory mechanism of the brain must be oscillating up and down, creating these wide swings in awareness, and fMRI might clarify what it was.

Caltech biologists work to reveal nature's mechanisms — how tens of thousands of components act in concert in cells, how organisms grow from single cells, how the brain maintains its consciousness, emotions, and superb computational capabilities, and what happens when any of those processes goes awry.

What's more, the ferrets reveal a possible mechanism for how human brains have grown over evolutionary time.

In particular, during recent evolution, what genetic mechanisms have allowed the emergence of specific traits characterizing the human brain?

The Zurich University study, led by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner, «highlights the neural mechanisms through which oxytocin acts to facilitate trust behavior by investigating what happens in the brain when trust breaks down.»

Researchers are using stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.

What's the mechanism of Candida or these yeasts uhm — causing neurological and brain and cognitive issues?

One of the more interesting phenomena that Kandel explains is that when viewing abstract paintings the brain uses what he calls a «top - down» mechanism to recruit personal experience, imagination, creativity, and responses to other works of art into the process.