Sentences with phrase «brain activity while»

Researchers placed the women in a functional MRI machine to monitor their brain activity while subjected to the threat of a mild electric shock.

Yes, rather than the typical story of an author — even a well - known and highly respected bestselling author like Grunberg — going digital with the publication process, Grunberg is part of an experiment he helped establish to monitor his brain activity while he writes his most recent novella.

And medical - grade monitors can watch muscle and brain activity while an athlete tests product, giving information on how fit perception defines performance.

The first scan measured subjects» overall brain activity while they performed working memory tasks.

The scientists monitored the subjects» brain activity while navigating from memory versus when they simply followed the directions given to them by a satnav device.

The researchers demonstrate that they can measure brain activity while people make natural movements, including nodding, stretching, drinking tea and even playing ping pong.

A study they published last month in the journal Psychological Science found that young 4 -, 5 - and 6 - year - olds who engaged in more conversation at home had more brain activity while they were listening to a story and processing language.

As director of the Roanoke Brain Study, Montague monitors brain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doesn't.

To try and understand the condition, Duchaine and his colleagues recorded brain activity while 12 people with prosopagnosia looked at famous and non-famous faces.

During this test, the subjects were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure their brain activity while carrying out the task.

They measured the brain activity while the animals were awake and moving and again while the rats were in REM sleep and twitching.

So, when the UI researchers noticed an increase in brain activity while the newborn rats were twitching during REM sleep but not when the animals were awake and moving, they conducted several follow - up experiments to determine whether sleep twitching is a unique self - generated movement that is processed as if it lacks corollary discharge.

«Older, fitter adults experience greater brain activity while learning.»

If this were not the case, we would relapse into Cartesian dualism, implying a suspension of brain activity while the conscious agent is working its magic.

The scanner captured images of the dogs» brain activity while they listened to nearly 200 dog and human sounds, including whines, cries, playful barks, and laughs.

In a new study, neuroscientists connected a network of electrodes to the hearing centers of 15 patients» brains (image above) and recorded the brain activity while they listened to words like «jazz» or «Waldo.»

To resolve this question, a team at the University of Cambridge monitored brain activity while people were actually forming new habits.

The team continued to monitor brain activity while the volunteers went about their normal activity in hospital.

To find that pattern, researchers monitored 16 participants» brain activity while presenting them with images and tastes; subjects then rated their feelings about each.

They had sensors monitoring brain activity while the heart was stopped and they interviewed the patients that died.

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

Not exact matches

Now this is still a theory that's being tested (the brain is a very complicated matter), but Frankland and Greene completed studies while monitoring the brain through a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand brain activity.

Zak's team measured the brain activity of people while they worked and discovered that trust is truly the secret sauce of what makes work exciting, productive, and innovative.

Research has shown that the consumption of glucose enhances complex brain activities, bolstering self - control and regulating prejudice and aggressive behaviors,» she writes, while also speculating that seeing and unconsciously mimicking your dining partner may engender more positive feelings towards them.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

If you want to bring science into it there appears to be a neurological brain study about it: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/97 Generally speaking, at this time I'm not sure how much stock I put into the results of these various neurological studies since while they seem to show brain activity under certain controlled situations, I don't necessarily find the situations conducive to what I consider proof.

While we might be incredibly wary of what we post online, we are more than happy to plug our bodies into wearable devices that monitor everything from our heart rates to brain activity and relay this information to an app.

The policy requires removal from play for any student, as determined by a game official, coach from the student's team, certified athletic trainer, licensed physician, licensed physical therapist or other official designated by the student's school entity, exhibits signs or symptoms of a concussion or traumatic brain injury while participating in an athletic activity.

The sky's the limit, but games, science experiments, construction toys, crafts, word play and imaginative role play are just a few of the activities that will challenge their brains while generating some laughs.

They also found that in other regions of the brain associated with emotional regulation, brain activity actually decreased while listening to the criticism.

Doing these activities while smiling, talking and listening to your baby will trigger the hormone oxytocin which will promote brain growth.

While we're pumping our students» brains with reading, fractions, history, and the arts, shouldn't we add a healthy dollop of nutrition and activity?

This brain activity makes sense when you think about the baby's needs: when she cries, she wants someone to be motivated to respond, to be a little obsessed with making sure everything is okay, and to stay calm while soothing her.

Everyday activities for 2 year olds can be the best way to exercise their bodies and brains, while leaving them tired enough to actually fall asleep at night!

A brain break is a quick activity that helps kids become more alert and focused while working.

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.

While you lie there, daydreaming, the scientists in the room next door monitor the patterns of activity that flicker around in your brain.

In a study that is now legend, cognitive scientist Benjamin Libet asked people to press a button whenever they felt like it while he monitored the electrical activity in their brains.

While a robotic arm is controlled by neuronal activity recorded with optical imaging (red laser), the position of the arm is fed back to the brain via optical microstimulation (blue laser).

Previous studies have reported changes to the brain while people practise these activities, but a new study shows for the first time that gene activity changes too.

So Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues recorded the electrical activity in almost 500 neurons in the somatosensory and motor cortex of a monkey's brain while it thought about using both its forelimbs.

While this was going on, the team's computer algorithm learned which brain activity matched which movements.

While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control and self - awareness.

While they recorded brain activity, the team trained the monkey to move the hands of a virtual representation of itself to follow two moving targets on the screen (see video, above).

To discover why some people can sleep through noise while others awake at the faintest disruption, Jeffrey Ellenbogen and colleagues at Harvard Medical School used electrodes to monitor the brain activity of 12 people while they slept in a pitch - black, soundproof room.

Analysis of the relationship between brain activity and Stroop reaction time revealed that those men that favored the left side of the PFC while performing the Stroop test had faster reaction times.

Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.

Innate social behaviors in the mouse brain: Neuroscientists image activity deep in the brain while mice engage in fighting and mating.»

It's possible that a mother's immune response to a virus regulates gene activity and pathways while the brain is still developing.

An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memoBrain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memobrain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.