Sentences with phrase «activates different brain»

And arts activities activate these different brain regions.

Not exact matches

Events in our surroundings activate these neuromodular systems and perfuse different regions of the brain, influencing how information is processed.

Playing tennis and moving around your house were chosen as they activate different areas of the brain, making it easy to distinguish between the two in a functional MRI scanner.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

«If somebody believes something will work,» says Zubieta, «that positive expectation by itself, through different connections in the brain, activates mechanisms that suppress pain.

The finding suggests that brain surgeons and the designers of neural prosthetics have a much smaller margin of error than previously thought — shifting an electrode even slightly could activate an entirely different set of neurons.

The group identified 12 categories of words — concepts such as time, location, emotion or social relevance — that seemed to activate more than 100 brain regions in different ways (Nature, doi.org/bfqp).

«If the sounds of the word had influence in this part of the brain we would expect to see that they activate the same or similar neurons, but this was not the case — «hair» and «hare» looked just as different as «hair» and «soup.»»

When multiple maps are overlaid, patterns begin to emerge that show how different regions of the brain activate specific and often discrete complements of genes.

But, much remains to be learned about how these different cells recognize and translate information from a given taste molecule and then activate a nerve to carry this information to the brain.

«When we recall a recent birthday party, for example, the brain likely activates a number of different systems, such as a system that is responsible for retrieving memory of events, a system that is responsible for building a vivid scene in our mind, and a system that is responsible for moving back in time.

Microglia are present throughout the brain and spinal cord, are constantly monitoring their environment, and can be switched on or activated to perform different functions such as control inflammation, destroy pathogens, clean up the debris from dead or damaged cells, and seal off the site of an injury.

If we want to communicate a thought through speech, Duffy said, we first formulate our language in the brain and then activate 100 different muscles using about 140,000 neuromuscular events per second to produce speech.

By recording volume variations in the blood vessels irrigating the different brain structures, it is therefore possible to determine the location of activated neurons.

With help from collaborators at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, the team applied a variant of the c - fos method that distinguishes the neurons activated in two different, successive behavioral encounters.

Researchers say the findings show twitches during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep comprise a different class of movement and provide further evidence that sleep twitches activate circuits throughout the developing brain.

It has billions of parts, many used to activate and silence genes — an arrangement that allows individual cells to specialize as brain cells, heart cells and some 200 other different cell types.

In the basal ganglia — a complex system of neurons in the brain responsible for, among other things, procedural learning — Bottjer and Achiro were able to isolate two different types of neurons in young songbirds: ones that were activated only when the birds heard themselves singing, and others that were activated only when the birds heard the songs of adult birds that they were trying to imitate.

Most of these approaches define a conscious brain as an integrated brain, where groups of cells in many different regions activate to form a cohesive pattern, explains Marcello Massimini, a neurophysiologist at the University of Milan in Italy.

In an effort to disentangle the roles that different regions of the brain play in complex problem solving, researchers have traced the networks of neurons activated in chess players» brains as they contemplate their next move.

Listening to music activates large networks in the brain, but different kinds of music are processed differently.

By activating the mutations in different parts of the brain and at different stages of development, the researchers found that the two mutations affected brain circuits in different ways.

They identified 12 categories of words — concepts such as time, location, emotion or social relevance — that seemed to activate more than 100 brain regions in different ways.

If a man and a woman each place their hands on a hot stove, different parts of their brains will activate.

A mother's soothing voice can activate many different regions of the brain, a new study revealed.

When you're learning something new, different areas of your brain are activated and those areas will keep you out of the stress - response cycle simply by virtue of being activated!

Meditation enables us to move from higher frequency brain waves to lower frequency, which activates different centers in the brain.

«We know that caffeine enters the brain and activates the release of different neurotransmitters that are related to mood, like dopamine and serotonin,» Dr. Ascherio said.

These practices activate or dampen different areas of the brain depending on what the basal ganglia needs to function optimally.

Before you curl a dumbbell an electrical signal starts in your brain and travels down your spinal cord to the lower cervical region where it activates a different nerve that goes out to your biceps.

As evidenced by brain scanning, different areas of the brain including the occipital lobe are activated by different parts of this simple meditation.

Because facial expressions activate different parts of the brain, paralyzing minute facial movements reduces the amount of impulses sent to the brain.

Being nice is not attraction, it activates a different part of the brain or something.

«It activates three different centers of the brain at the same time: language, hearing, and rhythmic motor control.

Video activates different centers in the brain, so it can help break up training content that's longer than a few minutes.

Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.

There is something about doing that aloud that activates a different part of my brain, which usually provides a solution.

MRI scans demonstrate that heavy Internet users and light Internet users activate different parts of their mind when they process the web, suggesting that we physically alter our brain structure when we jump around from topic to topic.

Early PET studies first reported that older adults activated more and different brain areas than younger adults (e.g., Backman et al., 1997; Grady et al., 1992; see Park & Reuter - Lorenz, 2009, for a review).