Sentences with phrase «active images of the brain»

Neuro - anatomy discoveries during the 1990s enabled us to observe active images of the brain's metabolic processes.

Not exact matches

The much more complicated integration in large molecules of neurons and of neurons in an active brain would lead to still more complicated systemic relations and not only to protopsychic ones, but also to real psychic phenomena, to sensations and mental images.

In this way, areas of the brain responsible for the motor system were active when a subject translated a term previously learned through gesture, while areas of the visual system were active in the case of words learned with the help of images.

Her team scanned 12 people's brains while they looked at hundreds of images of noses, eyes, mouths and other facial features and recorded which bits of the brain became active.

The lighting up of certain brain regions leads to increased blood flow to active areas, and this is what you see in an fMRI image.

This shows that neural excitation is what produces the fMRI images of active brain areas.

Whereas dysfunction in a part of the brain called the insula is understood to be correlated with the kind of dissociation present in body image disorders, activation in the insula — as observed in the brains of active meditators — is thought to be positively correlated with body awareness.