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In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»

When we consciously use sensations, breath, movement, and our body's awareness, we activate those areas in the brain that pay attention to what is happening in this moment, while supporting areas we need for learning, attention, and engagement.

Not exact matches

In addition, facts and stats typically stimulate only two areas of the human brain, but stories can activate up to seven, and trigger emotional responses within listeners.

The same areas of our brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain,» writes Winch in the post.

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

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.

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.

In a healthy brain, these responses are easy to tell apart on a scan: Tennis activates motor - related brain areas, while navigating activates spatial regions.

In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areaIn the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areain overlapping networks of brain areas.

Pain and itch even activate similar sensory areas in the brain.

The real - time fMRI scans revealed that when the volunteers successfully got the avatar to follow their gaze, brain areas involved in reward and motivation were activated.

Newberg and D'Aquili also argue that activities often found in religious rituals — like repetitive chanting — activate (and deactivate) similar areas in the brain, a finding that helps explain some of the more puzzling out - of - body experience reports, like those of the airplane pilots suddenly floating outside their planes.

Even more surprisingly, the researchers observed that areas of the brain, the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra, which participate in the reward circuit (activated when we love something), were more involved in people who do not like cheese than in those who do.

As the name implies, the technique involves electrical currents flowing through electrodes in random pulses, activating neurons in multiple brain areas.

One study of eight easily hypnotized individuals found that when they were simply asked to perceive a color, the color areas in the brain were activated — even if they were looking at a gray scale.

«There are multiple areas in the brain that activate because there are a lot of processes that have to take place.»

An August 15 functional MRI study in NeuroImage shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated with reward processing, pleasure and addiction.

They want to use brain imaging to see if pain areas are activated in the brain when ears are exposed to loud noises.

Brain networks associated with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated with reward.

They analyzed the data to determine exactly what was happening in the ventral sensory motor cortex (vSMC)-- how that area of the brain region was laid out, and in what order the neurons activated.

Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.

The brain researchers observed that nerve cells in the sensory cortex that con - nect to distinct brain areas are activated differentially depending on the task to be solved.

They found that the areas stimulated by salt and spice overlapped, and that spice further increased brain activity in areas activated by salt.

In humans, anxious sweat activates a cluster of brain areas known to be involved in empathIn humans, anxious sweat activates a cluster of brain areas known to be involved in empathin empathy.

CVS activates the balance organs which are believed to alter activity in the area of the brain, known as the brainstem, associated with the onset of migraine headaches.

«This work is exciting because they've shown that pre-stimulating an area of the brain necessary for the task makes processing faster,» says Arnd Pralle of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who uses magnetism instead of light to activate brain cells in worms.

Despite being objective losses, near - misses activate a particular reward - related area in the middle of our brain: the striatum.

The study revealed that activations in several areas in the brain belonging to the auditory, limbic, and motor regions were activated by all musical pieces.

Using a combination of brain imaging and computer modeling, researchers found areas in the auditory, motor, and limbic regions to be activated during free listening to music.

In a normal brain, imagining tennis activates the supplementary motor area of the cortex, and picturing one's home prompts activity in regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal corteIn a normal brain, imagining tennis activates the supplementary motor area of the cortex, and picturing one's home prompts activity in regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortein regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortein spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortex.

When exposed to estrogen, an area in the brain's memory hub that is typically suppressed during such tasks instead activated in those with the uniquely human gene variant.

One study of eight easily hypnotized individuals found that when they were simply asked to perceive a color, color areas in the brain were activated — even if they were looking at a gray scale.

He found that an understanding of intent activates areas in the right hemisphere of the brain that are traditionally associated with linguistic understanding.

The use of visual motion stimuli activates areas of the stroke patient's brain that are involved in eye movements and that facilitate attention towards the neglected side.

Here, we first demonstrated that Acks signals were detected in the MBs, especially in the Class II KCs of workers at 30 or 60 min after the bee ball formation, and neurons located in a restricted area between the DLs and the OLs of workers at 60 min whereas they were scarcely detected at 0 min (Figure 4, Figure S3, and Figure S4), strongly suggesting that these neurons are highly activated in the brains of workers involved in forming the hot defensive bee ball.

Furthermore, androstadienone has been shown to maintain increased levels of salivary cortisol in women [7], activate hypothalamus in a sex [8] and sexual orientation dependent manner [9], [10], and activate brain areas related to social cognition and attention [11].

In earlier studies androstadienone has been reported to increase attraction, affect subjects» mood, cortisol levels and activate brain areas linked to social cognition, among other effects.

Phillips found that close reading activated unexpected areas: parts of the brain that are involved in movement and touch.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

The same areas of the brain activated both times, suggesting that babies» brains help them develop a sense of themselves in the context of others, and eventually lay the groundwork for empathy and a shared neural network between people.

The science: putting something in your mouth activates areas of the brain that respond to gustatory (taste) stimulation and act with an appropriate emotional, cognitive and behavioural response.

In fact, when subjects are forced to live in social isolation, the same areas of the brain that react to physical pain are activateIn fact, when subjects are forced to live in social isolation, the same areas of the brain that react to physical pain are activatein social isolation, the same areas of the brain that react to physical pain are activated.

«We have found that UV light activates areas of the brain and chemicals in the brain that are known to be involved in other rewards and other addictions,» he said Adinoff, who also directs of mental health research at Dallas VA Medical Center.

It's the most effective way to activate the positivity area in your brain, which gets your thoughts cycling in the right direction.

The reason we mention this is because there is a strong relation between increased glucose levels and the activating of areas in your brain that are connected to addiction symptoms.

It has been amply demonstrated that when you eat sugars, when you eat chocolate, or when you eat anything sweet, certain areas in your brain are activated.

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The study discovered that, by activating and reinforcing some areas of the brain used in pain processing, meditation has the overall effect of helping to reduce pain intensity in patients.

Jon Kabat - Zinn's groundbreaking work with mindfulness training in chronic pain patients in the 1980s led to clinical studies looking at whether activating and reinforcing certain areas of the brain would decrease pain.