Sentences with phrase «brain areas»

They observed activity in brain areas involved in both reading and verbal skills.

These findings suggest that handwriting is important for development of brain areas critical for learning to read and write.

The research group was also able to demonstrate that brain areas involved in processing emotions were more interconnected after the treatment.

A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural damage in specific brain areas.

In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.

Those who drank the supplement showed improved activation in brain areas associated with cognitive function.

In such an approach, a functional connectivity network can be constructed based on a strong temporal correlation between brain areas [8].

They use an artificial language with real structures to show how new linguistic information is integrated into the same brain areas used for your native language.

«Most previous studies of memory were based on analyzing how damage to certain brain areas affects memory,» he said.

In humans, anxious sweat activates a cluster of brain areas known to be involved in empathy.

Previous studies have mainly focused on the role of certain brain areas in isolation.

In another study he showed that watching someone else in pain activates brain areas that are fairly distinct from those active during one's own pain.

These mice are different from normal mice in several key brain areas.

Researchers believe that interactions between vitamin D and dopamine in the brain of the fetus may play a crucial role in the neurological development of brain areas controlling motor and social development.

If it was learned, you would expect it to involve multiple brain areas, and those could vary between individuals.

These results suggest the possibility that this remediation program changed brain areas related to the sound structure of language, which in turn led to improved language and reading.

In contrast, late - born neurons are much more accurate, focusing on a single target brain area and only making connections there, rather than reaching out to many different areas.

His team created a map of relevant brain areas using information from 35 of the 47 participants.

Then tissue samples were collected from brain areas where healthy neurons had been introduced.

More importantly, this study provides strong insight to understanding the interaction between several brain areas in depression.

In particular, various brain areas, represented as nodes, are considered connected to each other if the correlation between them is strong.

«You've got to have a way to get brain areas communicating,» he says.

Our models can simulate how brain areas process information before passing it along and how different processing strategies would affect transmission across the brain.

Take out a small brain area, and you lose specific functions.

Of particular importance are brain areas supporting mental imagery, helping the child «see the story» beyond the pictures, affirming the invaluable role of imagination.

• The rats that were trained to use their «good» side had less brain area devoted to the control of the impaired limb.

Nevertheless, studies that compare the vivid imagery of dreams with daytime vision reveal similar patterns of activity in the visual cortex, the largest brain area devoted to vision.

Several dream researchers have proposed the opposite path, suggesting that dreams originate in the regions that store memories and then connect to visual brain areas.

These images, which depict the long fibers that cross the brain, helped surgeons to plan the operation by revealing brain areas that had to be carefully avoided.

This is a photograph of brain areas whose pattern of activation matched significantly while watching a video and remembering that same video.

In patients suffering from social anxiety disorder, regulation of excessive anxiety by frontal and lateral brain areas is impaired.

To their own surprise, they found that this same brain area also plays a crucial role in situations requiring self - control when no other person is present.

And when the students thought through mathematical equations, the engaged brain areas were the same as those that process sentences.

Some of the flashy discoveries about brain areas «for» love or religion will go the way of genes «for» intelligence, or whatever.

Thus, the sensory stimuli alone were not sufficient to explain the different pattern of information transfer to the remote brain areas.

And just like radio listeners with a certain musical preference tune in to the frequency that carries the music they prefer, brain areas tune into the wave length relevant for their functioning.

This time, none of the organs, major arteries, or brain areas usually affected by the disease were cited.

To process music, we therefore partly employ brain areas that relate to both touch and movement.

After exposure, there was a significantly greater decrease in blood flow in specific brain areas, particularly those involved in odor processing, in the chemically intolerant patients.

The visual cortex receives this additional information from other brain areas and uses it to allow us to understand and interpret the visual world.

Brain areas associated with emotion, reward, relationships and social interaction showed increased activity when the women saw the pictures of their children and their pets.

Likewise, if key brain areas can be stimulated to form new connections with cells, the overall decline might slow down.

As the name implies, the technique involves electrical currents flowing through electrodes in random pulses, activating neurons in multiple brain areas.

This electrical current stimulates the brain cells (neurons) in a targeted brain area and causes them to fire (or send an electrical impulse).

Activity of this brain network increases during positive feedback, and is accompanied by the release of dopamine, a brain chemical involved in transferring information between brain areas.

Recent research has shown that the same brain areas are active when we remember past events and when we think about the future.

The cell bodies make up what is known as grey matter, brain areas where particular types of processing happen.

Though not identical, itch and pain are closely related; they share the same pathways in certain brain areas.