Sentences with phrase «average brain»

Between species, average brain size, when a corrective formula for body size is applied, is a fair indicator of relative intelligence.

The weighted sample isn't a representation of what average brain development looks like in the United States.

In recent years neuroscientists have begun to catalog some fascinating differences between average brains and the brains of great athletes.

In their report, Laurent and his colleagues describe the existence of REM and slow - wave sleep in the Australian dragon, with many common features with mammalian sleep: a phase characterized by low frequency / high amplitude average brain activity and rare and bursty neuronal firing (slow - wave sleep); another characterized by awake - like brain activity and rapid eye movements.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

(The average brain has 100 billion to 1,000 billion neurons, each of which makes 100 to 10,000 connections with other neurons.)

They wanted details, like, what was different in his brain compared to the average brain?

But if their precious TV tells them that they are terrorists of course the average brain dead, beer drinking, sports watching idiot will concur with that assessment.

Of course as a Witness, you may want to use an average brain instead — but whatever.

«Football Is such a «simple & Easy» game, anyone with an average brain, athletic & fit can be trained to play like Messi, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho etc.with correct Coaching, Practice, Training having gone through DVDs of past games, mistakes pin pointed and corrections grilled and formations drilled in practice everyday until it becomes automated.Imprinting the «Blueprint»

That's because the average brain can hold only seven or so discrete items in short - term memory at once.

These fossils, dating from 1.77 million years ago, had brains between 600 and 775 cubic centimeters in volume, whereas H. erectus is generally thought to have had an average brain size of around 900 cubic centimeters.

At first glance, it's tough to distinguish between an image of an average brain of normal shape and one of an average brain of schizophrenic shape.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) collects low - resolution images, making it possible to see the overall structure of an average brain or get a broad sense of how a disease typically affects neural tissue.

The blue areas are where no excess tissue is lost relative to an average brain.

Bird species with larger than average brains have lower levels of a key stress hormone, an analysis of nearly 200 avian studies has concluded.

By putting all these features together in an algorithm, the researchers formed a picture of what the average brain looks like at each year of childhood.

Another large - brained animal is the elephant, with an average brain size of around 11 pounds.

Figures for the average brain size of modern humans tend to vary between sources, but a typical value is 1350 or 1400 cc (cubic centimetres).

Modern men of that stature would be expected to have a larger than average brain size, but the Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size of 910 cc is smaller than all but a fraction of 1 % of modern humans of all sizes and both sexes.

Gorillas have an average brain size of 500 cc, with large individuals going up to 700 cc, or even 752 cc in one reported (but unverifiable) instance.

The average brain contains 80 - 90 billion neurons, the cell bodies of which form «gray matter.»

The average person's height has reduced by five inches and the average brain size has decreased by 11 per cent since the introduction of grains.

It turns out, the average brain is about 77 % water, 12 % fat, 8 % protein, 2 % minerals and only 1 % carbs.

Too many variables for the average brain.

Images Added With Informational Text The average brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text.