Sentences with phrase «between brain processing»

This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between brain processing of speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading disorders, language disorders) who are in grades K - 3.

The findings provide new hope that by strengthening the link between these brain processes as people age, the impairments in distinguishing the order of events and perceived collisions could reduce.

Not exact matches

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

The spinal cord may be best understood as a thick data cable that processes and transmits the constant stream of electrical impulses that flow between your brain and the rest of your body, enabling motion and sensation.

One possible reason for this ability is that the very processes of learning two languages and switching back and forth between them train the brain to be more attuned to auditory information, Bak said.

When we switch between tasks, our brains must halt any processing of the current rule set and load a new rule set for the next task.

Without denigrating the importance of the «left» brain, process thought would concur with the attempt to achieve a greater sense of wholeness between the two sides of mental activity.

As a rule, verbal and spatial processing are more sharply divided between the two halves for men, whereas verbal and visual processing tend to be distributed more equally in female brains.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

These fictionalized, grandiose tales weren't real, and my tiny human brain couldn't — and still can't always — process the difference between truth and well, Hollywood.

There may be a physical impairment that prevents your child from correctly forming words or there may be processing problem, which means that your child's internal communication system isn't able to effectively carry a message between the brain the body parts that are used to speak.

Remember that this is a work in progress so keep repeating this process until the brain builds the bridge between the «freaking out» part of the mind to the rational part.

Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with brain imaging techniques and the findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our brains process the distinction between us and «others».

However, apart from the structural differences, there are profound differences between the brain and a computer, especially in learning and information processing mechanisms.

Brains of teenage girls exposed to high levels of family stress when they were toddlers showed reduced connections between the amygdala, which is also known for processing fear and emotions, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an outer region responsible for emotional regulation.

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).

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

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...

«Although we can not demonstrate a direct link between Candida infection and physiological brain processes, our data show that some factor associated with Candida infection, and possibly the organism itself, plays a role in affecting the memory of women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and this is an avenue that needs to be further explored,» says Severance.

In the first chapter, for example, in a chat between Brockman and psychologist Steven Pinker of Harvard University, Pinker complains about theories of mind that are «decades out - of - date» while advancing an information - processing theory of the brain that is also out - of - date.

The findings also reveal an unexpected connection between an RNA processing mechanism and protective immunity in a specific region of the brain.

This hypothesis might help explain why prodromal symptoms occur: As connections between neurons dwindle, prodromal patients might lose, for example, the ability to filter out irrelevant sensations, which then flood the brain without any processing.

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.

These interactions between the senses, in addition to educating us about brain mechanisms for information processing, may also provide a useful tool in rehabilitation for neurological disorders.

By contrast, visual brain processes are similar between people and animals.

At the same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal area — that serves as an interface between the brain's visual and motor processing regions.

Decreased connectivity between regions of the brain that process a social situation could lead to the impaired judgment that escalates to an explosive outburst of anger.

People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions of the brain associated with sensory input, language processing and social interaction.

He distinguishes perceptual quirks such as the sound - colour correspondence from true synaesthesia, which he believes emerges from associations between higher concepts, not crossed connections in brain areas that process senses.

Therefore, he argues, hand preference causes brain lateralization — or there is no link between the two processes.

«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.

It's the software brain that knows whether you're doing the Soulja Boy dance correctly, that filters out a room's ambient audio profile to process voice commands with incredible accuracy and speed, that spots the difference between your face and your brother's, instantly.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

Between this language formulation and execution is a process called motor speech programming — what the brain does to select, organize, and package the instructions to the muscles of speech, he said.

These findings raise the intriguing possibility that sleep - related developmental processes in the brain contribute to the link between melanism and other traits observed in adult barn owls and other animals.

A correct balance between suppression and excitation is decisive for all brain processes.

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

In their recent PNAS paper members of the Imperial College team reported that the presence of LSD was linked to a boost in blood flow and functional connectivity between the brain's primary visual cortex and seemingly unrelated brain networks that mediate other sensory inputs as well as higher - level processes including emotion.

«Despite the widespread evidence for interactions between sleep loss and metabolic dysfunction, little is known about the molecular basis of this interaction and how these processes integrate within the brain.»

In an analysis of postmortem human brain tissue from 137 control subjects, they also found an association between the ECR47 risk variant and reduced ADGRL3 expression in the thalamus, a key brain region for coordinating sensory processing in the brain.

But there is also a critical feedback loop between these two systems — processed in our brain stem — and our eyes.

After image processing, even an area appears that is in transition between healthy and affected tissue: this may give an indication how the disease is spreading in the brain.

The regeneration process following brain injury involves complex processes, such as building new blood vessels and rebuilding connections between neurons, and requires much energy.

The researchers are working to understand further the relationship between the heart and the brain; they are using functional MRI to look at the workings of parts of the brain known to be involved in the processing of emotions, reactions, behaviour, decision - making and memory, such as the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

The researchers point out that this neurobiological similarity between sign and speech, then, goes beyond basic similarities and into more intricate processes — the same parts of the brain are used at the same time for the specific computation of combining words or signs into more complex expressions.

DISCOMBOBULATING COLOR Here is a great cognitive visual illusion that involves a conflict between the syntactic and symbolic processing systems in your brain.

Strong communication between neurons in the brain is an essential process for memory formation.

It may be that subjective perceptions of facial emotion are formed through repeated cycles of processing between the amygdala, the temporal cortex and other brain structures that shape a person's values and social perspectives.»

In engineering terms, it is easy to see qualitative similarities between the human brain and the internet's complex network of nodes, as they both hold, process, recall and transmit information.