Sentences with phrase «activity on a brain scan»

As the time interval between the two increases, the word suddenly pops into consciousness — accompanied by characteristic activity on a brain scan.

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The researchers fed the data from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based on his or her brain activity.

Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Trying to find the right medicine for the sickest of these patients, Rapoport scanned their brains to zero in on regions involved in OCD and found increased activity in the basal ganglia, a center for movement and habits located at the base of the forebrain.

By comparing participants» mental health assessments at the time of the brain scans, and in a follow - up occurring on average seven months later, he found that these at - risk individuals were less likely to develop anxiety if they also had high activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case involving a psychologist accused of defrauding Medicare.

The patterns were surprisingly consistent from person to person, to the extent that the researchers could predict, based on brain activity, the feelings of an individual who had never been scanned before.

They trace the development of the face in embryos, scan brains, read the electrical activity of muscles, and record grins and pouts on high - speed video.

[Visiting Google] this summer opened my eyes to what it would mean if, instead of thinking of biomarkers as something we measure in blood or in a brain scan, we also include things we can measure on a smartphone: your activity level, your sleep, your social activity, and your cognitive performance.

«Relatively still» means that the birds did perform head scans [28] and did occasionally move around on the perch in all cases together with minimal (< 5 mins / h) unspecific motor activity (flying around / jumping on / off the perch, as this would have led to motor - dependent activity in the brain).

Brain scans were done on all participants and compared with scans taken before the activities began.

Many activities we do on our phones, from scanning Instagram to playing the game du jour, are brilliantly designed to behave like drugs in our brain, hitting our reward systems and making us want to keep going and going and going.

In these brain scans, activity in the right hemisphere is displayed on the left side of the image,...

... You might think that this preference for the sponsoring gallery was due to a kind of politeness... [but] the brain scans showed the same effect; the presence of the sponsor's logo increased the activity in the parts of the participants» brains that are related to pleasure... This suggested that the favor from the sponsoring gallery had a deep effect on how people responded to the art.