Sentences with phrase «brain areas using»

The researchers disrupted the activity in this brain area using what's called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

The neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, for example, has noted that the neural machinery for attachment and bonding is actually cobbled together out of more primitive brain areas used for temperature regulation.

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.

And studies using functional MRI measures have shown that the amount of cortical brain area used is greater during eccentric contractions than in concentric contractions (Yao et al. 2014), while functional connectivity between the primary motor cortex and other parts of the brain is reduced (Yao et al. 2016).

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Social media use directly activates the areas of the brain linked to pleasure.

«Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas.»

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

We wanted to expand the area associates» functions so they could use their brains, in addition to their clerical skills.»

I loved the idea that since we use our brain, why not use this area of our body, one that's about giving life, where we hold so much of our intuition and wisdom?

Jesus used contrast constantly to enable his message to land in the brain's action - area.

A study from 2014 confirmed the link between pornography use and decreased brain matter in the areas of motivation and decision making, impaired impulse control and desensitization to sexual reward.

Do you 3 even use your gray cells in the brain area to imagine what heights this current Arsenal squad can reach uninjured if Fabregas sticks with us for a few more years?

Using brain scans to compare the gray matter of children with RAD to typically developing children, the researchers found significantly reduced volume of gray matter in the area of the brain known as the left primary visual cortex.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

The test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, usually entails both visual and symbolic reasoning, although brain imaging of study subjects with autism showed they were able to score well using only the areas of their brains associated with visual processes.

These include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, the former uses alternating magnetic fields to simulate specific brain areas while the latter aims electrical currents of power equal to a 9 - volt battery to specific brain areas.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scientists found that the hippocampus, the brain area responsible for long - term memory, is smaller in people suffering from MS than in healthy adults.

Rolls used monkeys to investigate the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), an area of the brain associated with decision - making.

Brain scans using fMRI showed that, when listening to English phonetic sounds, monolinguals, early bilinguals and late bilinguals» brains lit up in different areas.

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

The amount of light reflected back from each region is determined by how much blood and oxygen the brain is using in that area.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

However, we use optogenetics to systematically stimulate certain unaffected areas of the brain so that they sprout connections into the damaged hemisphere in order to assume its functions.»

The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.

They used fcMRI to assess communication between brain areas in 130 stroke patients and in 31 people who had not experienced strokes.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

From the point of view of the research, it is beneficial to use the conclusions of this work to advance in the area of brain - machine interactions.

She also talked to a scientist who has used brain scans to determine that echolocators use areas of the brain normally associated with seeing when they maneuver.

The brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.

He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

Doctors may either remove the area of the brain where seizures begin or use various surgical techniques to limit the spread of seizure activity.

By using tracer chemicals in experiments with live garden warblers, the researchers followed a circuit of neurons from the cryptochrome molecules to the «cluster N» area of the brain, which is active during navigation, showing for the first time that cluster N uses information from the retina.

Madhavan said they use use noninvasive tools, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, to compare the excitability of the affected and unaffected areas of the brain.

In this study, published in Neuron last year, Greene and Shenhav observed that as the subjects made their decisions, they tapped a fascinating selection of brain areas: the insula, normally used to manage probability and risk, and the ventral striatum, which tracks magnitude.

«Like physical exercise, the more you use specific areas of your brain, the more it grows and gets stronger.»

The fNIRS scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was in the process of being integrated into the participants existing language brain networks.»

Blind human echolocators use visual areas of the brain.»

Since the current work was done in mice, O'Leary and Zembrzycki want to confirm the link in humans by using brain scans to measure the natural variation in the neocortical areas and search for potential links to disease.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

Alex Martin and his colleagues at the NIMH decided to use the technique to investigate knowledge about colour and movement, because the areas of the brain that perceive these attributes are already well known.

To develop a comprehensive view of astrocyte gene expression, the duo used the technique in four very different areas of the mouse brain: two regions of the cortex and the hypothalamus and cerebellum.

The brain area that controls neck muscles used to be between areas that control the thumb and the top of the head (black arrow) but a new study puts the neck between the shoulder and the trunk (red arrow).

«We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure different brain areas of our research subjects while they watched short segments of the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and James Bond movies,» explains Aalto University Associate Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen.