Sentences with phrase «anterior frontal lobe»

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Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

It seems to be in the anterior cingulate, a tiny structure that sits near the junction between the frontal lobe, which processes thoughts and behavior, and the limbic system, which governs feelings and emotions.

A human neuroimaging study using diffusion tensor imaging revealed that the anterior insula is interconnected to regions in the temporal and occipital lobe, opercular and orbitofrontal cortex, triangular and opercular parts of the inferior frontal gyrus.

Functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex within the human frontal lobe: A brain - mapping meta - analysis