Sentences with phrase «between brain hemispheres»

An increased volume of communication between the brain hemispheres, via the corpus callosum, is believed to then be the reason for the improved executive functions many musicians have.

Meditation improves memory, increases brain size, improves cooperation between brain hemispheres and enhances emotional intelligence according to the Exploration of Consciousness Research Institute.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

Not exact matches

She «found greater neural connectivity from front to back and within one hemisphere in males, suggesting their brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action.

That might be because, according to a study from the University of Pennsylvania, women tend to have more connections between the hemispheres of their brain, encouraging intuitive and analytical thought, whereas men tend to develop one - sided brain connections, encouraging quick perception and corresponding action.

Through the two hemispheres of the human brain, each making distinctive contributions to human activity, a fresh way is provided for comprehending the traditional tension between faith and reason, ecstasy and ethics, eros and agape.

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

The changes are associated with less - organized communication between the brain's hemispheres and are comparable to the effects found in previous animal studies.

Future brain - stimulation techniques could target this bilateral effect in effort to promote communication between the hemispheres and, hopefully, engender healthy cognition throughout the lifespan.

The nondyslexic brain splits the task more evenly between hemispheres.

In particular, the dichotic listening tasks track the efficiency communication between the brain's two hemispheres.

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

Only 10 % to 15 % of humans are left - handed, compared with one - third of Yerkes chimps and even more of those in the wild — which suggests that there is very little specialization between the two hemispheres of the brain in chimps compared with humans.

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a brain region tucked into the crease between the two cerebral hemispheres.

Previous research has showed that musicians have increased white matter integrity in a specific part of the brain called the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right halves of the brain, enabling communication between the hemispheres.

Between 1975 and 2001 more than 111 children had one of their brain's two hemispheres completely removed.

But if the connections between the hemispheres are warm, as they are in your own brain, you can try as hard as you may wish to split your experience in two, to see SO independently of NO, but you will not succeed.

The intimate cooperation between the two hemispheres makes it all the more remarkable that a person can survive with just one — a sign that the brain is far more malleable than we once thought.

Recall Ishmael's brain, in the crypt of Prince Venosa, when Salerno froze the connections between his two hemispheres.

Most prominent effects between IQ and the level of global connectivity efficiency (as expressed by a shorter node specific normalized path length) were found in the medial prefrontal cortex (yellow box), bilateral inferior parietal cortex (red box depicts effect in right hemisphere), and precuneus / posterior cingulate regions (orange box) of the functional brain network.

And I am particularly interested in exploring the relationship between the left and the right hemispheres of the brain.

In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

One of the most visible features of the brain is the division between the left and right hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.

Warm up with spinal flexibility poses and then move to poses that cross over the midline to enhance neuron connections between hemispheres of the brain, include heart openers to access the heart chakra (anahata) for building self - esteem, enhancing love of self and compassion for others.

This palms - together gesture completes an energetic circuit between the hands and the heart and harmonizes the two hemispheres of the brain.

Long before Christy Turlington graced the cover of Vogue in Calvin Klein and Upward Facing Bow, the postures associated with modern yoga arose as a way to prepare the body for long spells of seated meditation: Open hips to accommodate a cross-legged seat; a strong back to hold a straight spine; equanimity between the left and right hemispheres of the brain for clear focus.

Within just a week of using a variety of binaural beats recordings, you'll begin experiencing what scientists call «whole brain functioning», which is the stimulation and creation of new neural pathways between the right and left hemispheres of your brain, which balance the brain and lead you to high - level performance.

This means brain reorganization at a higher level, the creation of new neural pathways and increased communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, essentially making you more centered and balanced; smarter, calmer, faster and happier.

The interaction between ida and pingala corresponds to the internal dance between intuition and rationality, consciousness and vital power, and the right and left brain hemispheres.

The brain naturally communicates between the two hemispheres on its own.

Teachers can not determine if a student is «left brain or right brain dominate» because the human brain is highly interconnected, with information flowing from left hemisphere to right hemisphere and back again within a matter of seconds thanks to the corpus callosum, the neural «bridge» between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

It isolates twenty one functionality differences between the two hemispheres which highlight the need for the greatest possible right brain input into any creative project.

Using EEG and brainwave interactive media, the degree of coherence between the brain's right and left hemispheres provides a representation of an individual's energetic condition.

The common misconception that art and science are so vastly different, that they never overlap, is discredited by two contemporary artists, Rusty Scruby and Shawn Smith, whose work proves that the union of these two disciplines, like the brain's neuropathways between our right (artistic) and left (analytical) hemispheres, is the sweet spot known as creativity.

High cortisol levels reduce functionality in important self - regulatory parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus (the centre of learning and organisation), the corpus callosum (which allows communication between left and right brain hemispheres, connecting language with sensed experiences) and the prefrontal cortex (fundamental in planning and regulating feelings and behaviour).

The right hemisphere of the brain is particularly active during early interactions between very young children and caregivers and that stores the internal working model for attachment relationships and affect regulation (Schore, 2003).

Because these approaches involve right hemisphere dominance, they are beneficial to attachment work where «right - brain - to - right - brain» connections between therapist and client are essential.

That's because meditation (also known as mindfulness - based stress reduction) actually creates new neural pathways between the brain's right and left hemispheres, he says, which offers coherence between our brain's analytical, time - conscious, logical left side and the intuitive, accepting, creative right side.