Sentences with phrase «about brain areas»

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In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

Research has linked the positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to higher levels of activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.

I loved the idea that since we use our brain, why not use this area of our body, one that's about giving life, where we hold so much of our intuition and wisdom?

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

Past studies have shown that an area of the brain, the right temporoparietal junction, shows increased activity when people read about another's intentions or beliefs.

As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the areas of the brain that process language.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

Answers about how the brain as a whole integrates activity among areas, however, have proved elusive.

When he asked her to think about playing tennis, the fMRI scan showed activity in the supplementary motor area, just as in the brains of healthy volunteers.

Little is known about the neural underpinnings of metacognition, but it is likely to involve the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, two brain areas modulated by the chemicals dopamine and noradrenaline.

The key finding of a research team based at Brown University is that neurons in the area of the brain responsible for planning grasping motions retain information about the object to be gripped as they make their movement plan.

Recent research has shown that the same brain areas are active when we remember past events and when we think about the future.

Alex Martin and his colleagues at the NIMH decided to use the technique to investigate knowledge about colour and movement, because the areas of the brain that perceive these attributes are already well known.

But when you have images, your brain is able to pick up on a lot of detail about an area, including whether it's low rise or high rise.

The reward - related, or «hedonic,» component is centralized in the mesolimbic dopamine system, areas of the brain usually referenced when we talk about the effects of sex, drugs and rock»n' roll.

Previous studies have shown that when people are observed, brain activity jumps in areas of the brain known for thinking about others, even if people aren't doing anything that others could judge.

UNTIL ABOUT 35 years ago scientists believed there was only a single visual - processing area, called the visual cortex, situated at the back of the brain.

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.

So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.

Indeed, Oliva says; «Human cognitive and computational neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge about how the human brain is able to see, hear, feel, think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»

«The correlated brain regions gave us insight about which areas of the brain work together during an awake, resting state,» said Godwin, a Georgia Tech psychology Ph.D. candidate.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

But about a decade ago, Leuthardt and Bundy, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Kansas Medical Center, discovered that a small area of the brain played a role in planning movement on the same side of the body.

Although automated gene - sifting techniques have been used in other areas of biology, Huganir notes, many neuroscience studies instead build on existing knowledge to form a hypothesis about an individual gene's role in the brain.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

Unlike the visual cortex, say, whose coding will be influenced by light falling onto the retina, the entorhinal cortex creates the hexagonal pattern entirely internally, by integrating whatever information about the environment is received by other areas of the brain.

«The brain at rest» is actually a hive of activity and what it's doing is trying to sort out information that comes in; I mean this is another, another thing that made Marcus Raichle curious about this, is we know, for instance, that six million bits of data go flowing in through your optic nerve from the environment around you, and then only 10,000 of those bits actually get to the brain's visual processing area and only a few hundred of those are involved in consciousness, and you know, the conscious processing associated with that visual activity.

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.

The brain areas that are undercommunicating in psychopathy «are key for experiencing empathetic concern and caring for one another, which is what empathy is all about and what individuals who score high on psychopathy do not have,» Decety says.

With music and language, it is not about general attention, but about activity in the area of the brain that is shared by music and language,» explains Kunert.

A scientific disagreement — In an 1881 neuroanatomy atlas, Wernicke, a well - known anatomist who in 1874 discovered «Wernicke's area,» which is essential for language, wrote about a fiber pathway in a monkey brain he was examining.

After learning about Penfield's experiments, the British author Aldous Huxley wrote: «Is there, one wonders, some area in the brain from which the probing electrode could elicit Blake's Cherubim...?»

The study, published by PNAS journal, gives clues about the importance of music at an evolutionary level based on the connection between the auditory and emotional areas of the brain.

«We wanted to learn more about how the brain is different in Down Syndrome compared to typical development, so we measured surface area and thickness, which both contribute to cortical volume but are determined by different genetic factors.»

Researchers have now uncovered an area in the brain about the size of an almond in humans that wields powerful control over the body's aging process.

And this applies to other areas of the brain as well as the hippocampus, where we are beginning to ask questions about how these areas become dysfunctional in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

He notes that a typical brain scan may focus on an area of about 1 cubic millimeter (0.00006 cubic inch).

For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»

Right now we can record from about 100 different electrodes at a time, which is enough to get a sense of what one part of one brain area is doing, but not to study a circuit as a whole.

Based on their discovery, Kreitzer and his team revised their assumptions about how fast - spiking interneurons may function elsewhere, suggesting that the neurons are critical for learning in other areas of the brain, too.

Kreitzer is applying knowledge of an area in the brain called the basal ganglia — gained through research on Parkinson's disease — to pursue answers about decision - making and motivated behaviors.

«We know a lot about neurons in some areas of the brain, but very little about neurons in others.

Just the intent of generosity was enough to bring about a change in the area of brain which makes us happier.

There's a reason you can't stop thinking about that special new guy or girl in your life: MRI scans have shown that falling in love sends blood rushing to the «pleasure center» areas of the brain — the same areas that are responsible for obsessive - compulsive behaviors.

The areas of the brain involved in processing emotions, recalling memories, and thinking about the future are connected together in what is known as the default mode network, or DMN.

I was actually excited about seeing how you take your researchers brain into other areas of your life.