Sentences with phrase «as brain signals»

But people paralysed from the neck down can not benefit from this technique as brain signals can not reach the chest.

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Those nonverbals register in our brains as signals of trust or distrust in about 100 milliseconds or less.»

By using methods and tools such as EEG or MRI, neuromarketing read electrical signals from the brain and analyze them to provide their clients with the answers they need.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

Having the device within visual range is critical as it sends a signal to the brain to not be anxious.

The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

As we age, our taste buds become less sensitive, so the foods that we once found unappealing, don't send as many strong signals to our brainAs we age, our taste buds become less sensitive, so the foods that we once found unappealing, don't send as many strong signals to our brainas many strong signals to our brains.

That process produces hunger - taming hormones that send signals to your brain and act as natural appetite suppressants.

You're starting to fill up stomach space with lower calorie foods and, especially when dining out, you give your stomach the 20 minutes it takes to begin to signal to the brain that it's no longer as hungry so you will eat less of the main entree.

It works as a signal to your brain to make more milk.

When darkness falls, your brain interprets this as a signal to start producing melatonin, a hormone that triggers relaxation, paving the way for sleep.

As you allow your baby to nurse frequently, this sends the proper signals to your brain, which will stimulate milk production.

«Visual signals that the brain can not predict might be especially important, such as a car that suddenly appears, or maybe an approaching predator in the case of the mouse.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

A number of individual genes have been linked to suicide, such as those involved in the brain's response to mood - lifting serotonin, and a signalling molecule called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which regulates the brain's response to stress.

As I spoke with various researchers, I realized that the disagreements signaled newly emerging views of how the brain ages.

We perceive sound after vibrations in the inner ear are detected by «hair cells» and transmitted to the brain as electrical signals.

While we're pretty good at distinguishing a signal from the noise (as is the ferret brain), putting two songs together eliminates cues that the brain uses to tell things apart.

After attaching a small helium balloon to a moth to balance out the electronics» weight, Bozkurt and Amit Lal, his Ph.D. adviser at Cornell, discovered they really could fly the bug, as if its own brain were sending signals on how to move.

Because of its ability to finely tune the signals it generates, an MRI can also show softer, more intertwined tissues — such as in the brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system — in rich detail.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

To explore the idea, he dissected the brains of rats, staining both ipRGCs and pain - signaling neurons to trace their paths.The ipRGCs connect to pain neurons in the thalamus, he found, suggesting that exposure to light could disturb pain - signaling neurons as well.

For example, being hungry affects the body, and signals associated with metabolism, as well as signals in the brain.

As the brain's sensory relay station, the thalamus is responsible for sending rousing signals to the cortex when we wake up from ordinary sleep.

As SNX27 plays an important role in shuttling the AMPA - receptor to the brain cell surface, lower levels of SNX27 means fewer receptors are carried to the surface, which consequently interrupts the signal transmission and impairs memory.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

The two reflexes occur automatically as a result of signals from the brainstem, an evolutionarily older part of the brain.

As the animals learned, the researchers recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in the amygdala, a brain structure that forms memories of fearful experiences.

As a result, the sensory hair cell bundles that receive sound and signal the brain deteriorate and become disorganized, leading to profound hearing loss.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

The hair cells formed normal bundles (see images) that responded to sound waves and signaled the brain, as measured by electrical recordings.

They showed that ZIKV infection of cortical progenitors (stem cells for cortical neurons) controlling neurogenesis triggers a stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (where some of the cellular proteins and lipids are synthetized) in the embryonic brain, inducing signals in response to incorrect protein con - formation (referred to as «unfolded protein response»).

Some people who have had a device implanted have lost weight as a side effect, possibly because stimulation is mimicking the normal messages from our gut to our brain that signal when we are full.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generateAs signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generateas brain waves, are generated.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

GLP - 1 receptors are also found in the brain, and prior research has shown that activating them can boost the function of dopamine connections, act as an anti-inflammatory, improve energy production, and switch on cell survival signals.

As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neuronAs well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neuronas offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

It is a product of all five senses (hearing included) interacting in unexpected ways, those sensory signals subject to gross revision as they are integrated by the brain into one complex, sometimes wonderful perception.

In other words, the brain extracts the stereo signal from the patches as a whole — interpreting the individual chunks as blobs — yet those patches themselves are seen to rival.

The results reveal that the brain does not require multiple signals to build a picture body ownership, as this is the first time the illusion has been created using sensory inputs from the muscle alone.

The question that carried him from vision research to autism had to do with what happens after light hits the human retina: How are the incoming signals transformed into data that are ultimately processed as images in the brain?

Just as in sighted individuals using vision, the brain regions that play a critical role in processing the structure and geometry of objects are distinct from the brain regions that process the cues that signal the material properties of objects in blind echolocators.

There are some disadvantages, he says, to a system that uses a cap instead of a device implanted directly in the brain, such as the background signals that the cap might pick up.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

It describes how the brain constructs a mental depiction of the surface using sensory signals from two fingers as they explore a surface over time and space.

When activated by inflammatory markers in the gut, it sends a signal to the brain, where immune cells produce proteins such as IL - 6, leading to increased metabolism (and hence decreased levels) of the «happiness hormone» serotonin in the brain.