«Movies synchronize brains:
Brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people.»
Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited
brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.
Not exact matches
Those who gave away money
showed a particular
pattern of
activity in their
brains, but that wasn't the most interesting part of the findings.
It
showed enhanced
activity in sections of the
brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different
patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.
Scientists at the University of California discovered that when rats experience something new, their
brains show new
patterns of
activity.
For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment
showed that
brain wave
patterns deviate most from
patterns of neural
activity when people are making what look like free choices.
In traditional heterosexual partnerships where the mother is primary caregiver, mothers and fathers
show similar but distinct
patterns of
brain activity in response to their child.
Running the game while recording people's
brain activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half of what their partner thought they had)
showed similar
brain patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.
So subsequently people have been looking at this type of
brain activity and this
brain activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again,
showing that identical twins had more similar
patterns than non-identical twins.
Some research, for example,
shows that
patterns of
brain activity can predict our choices or actions before we become consciously aware of having made a decision, and it may be hard to reconcile this evidence with the notion of free will.
By recording neuronal
activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has
shown that there are waves of
activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the
brain in defined
patterns, and that these
patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.
Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical
activity in the
brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to
show blood flow
patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.
Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients
show different
patterns of neural
activity.
«In pursuit of pleasure,
brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice
shows how the
brain learns to reproduce
patterns of
brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»
In particular, high fit older adults
showed better memory performance and increased
brain activity patterns compared to their low fit peers.
New research
shows that our
brain displays a similar
pattern of
activity during dreams as it does during a mind - expanding drug trip.
«Link found between cognitive fatigue and effort and reward: Neuroimaging findings
show overlap in
activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, suggesting a
pattern of self - regulation in the
brain triggered by cognitive fatigue.»
A scent's location on the map also predicts the
brain activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles
showed that neighboring odors cause similar
patterns of neuron
activity.
«Our results
show we can detect a specific
pattern of
activity between neurons in the
brain, recording instantaneous exchanges between them as persistent signals that can later be visualized under a microscope,» Gallio said.
The measurements of
brain activity taken before the musical training *
showed no significant
pattern of correlation.
«However, this study
shows that actions come from preconscious
brain activity patterns and not from the person consciously thinking about what they are going to do.»
When played neutral - sounding statements, females
showed additional sustained increases in
brain activity around 1000 milliseconds after the start of the speech — a
pattern that has previously been
shown to occur when making judgements incorporating extra information.
Building on the temporal precision of the MEG technique, we
show that machine - decoding algorithms capture
patterns of neuronal
activity that follow the decision and, hence, do not reveal how our
brain uses information contained in these
patterns.
Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests
showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or
activity in a different part of the
brain, while those with the higher scores
showed a more typical
pattern of
brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.
«But during the navigational memory task, certain parts of the
brains of subjects with concussion
showed altered activation
patterns, either diminished or increased
activity.
In those scans, one spot in the
brain showed the same
patterns of
activity as the master map in the computer model.
When we move our eyes in REM sleep, according to the study, specific
brain regions
show sudden surges of
activity that resemble the
pattern that occurs when we are introduced to a new image — suggesting that eye movements during REM sleep are responsible for resetting our dream «snapshots.»
The results in his thesis
show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the
brain's
activity patterns related to these performances.
Whereas liver and blood gene
activity patterns showed the expected differences among the three groupswith human transcription looking similar to that of the chimp, and different from that of the more evolutionarily distant macaquegene
activity in the
brain revealed stark differences between humans and chimps.
The team from Kyoto University and ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Computational Neuroscience Laboratories discovered that
brain activity patters can be decoded, or translated, into signal
patterns of simulated neurons in the DNN when both are
shown the same image.
Calcium imaging also
showed that the neurons in the organoid were not firing sparsely, with isolated
activity, as in cultured
brain organoids, but in synchronized
patterns, suggesting an active neuronal network was developing.
Carla Shatz
showed how
patterns of
activity in the developing
brain instruct and refine the arrangement of synapses between neurons.
Neuroimaging findings
show overlap in
activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, suggesting a
pattern of self - regulation in the
brain triggered by cognitive fatigue
In the latest study, he said, people's
brain activity showed a
pattern that supports the idea that humans and many other animals evolved to suddenly become more alert just before dusk.
High and low sensation seeking adolescents
show distinct
patterns of
brain activity during reward processing