Sentences with phrase «believe other brain areas»
«In both humans and voles, we believe other brain areas are likely involved too, including the amygdala, a brain area important for attaching positive or negative importance of specific stimuli to motivate behavioural responses.»
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These neurons, he believed, somehow turned up or down the «volume» of the neurons he'd recorded in other areas of the brain.
He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.
«One camp of neuroscientists believe that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them, and that the area or areas of the brain that do one, also do the other, but our study suggests this isn't the case,» says Glezer.
The nature of senior moments led scientists to believe they stem from disruptions in the hippocampus — an area that, among other roles, acts as the brain's «save» button, allowing us to retain new information.
The researchers believe the TRN fine - tunes the brain's control over local brain regions, enhancing or reducing slow waves in certain regions so those areas can communicate with each other, or inducing some areas to become less alert when the brain is very drowsy.
Based on this line of thinking, biologically - minded therapists believe that counseling activates certain brain areas and deactivates others, thus reducing symptoms.