Sentences with phrase «brain capacity for»

It first came to me when I was working on Win Win, and I had to pass because I didn't have the brain capacity for it.

Dr. Hardy posits that, based on archaeologic, anthropologic, genetic, and physiologic data, it was actually the coevolution of cultural use of fire, cooked starch, and salivary / pancreatic amylase that afforded the brain the capacity for a quantum leap in evolution.

«If you don't write things down, you end up cluttering your mind, leaving less memory storage for more important things,» Wong says, «and less brain capacity for other process, including creativity.»

Stress radically slows down our brains capacity for intellectual reasoning.

Not exact matches

Our brains are remarkably good at some things, like pattern - matching, and we certainly do have a capacity for logic and reason.

I ride longer distances on my bike, can do more pull - ups than ever, and my brain seems to have a larger capacity for new projects, problem solving, songwriting, and fielding random questions.

The takeaway lesson is, if you want to strengthen your capacity for positivity and weaken your reflex for gloom, «surround yourself with happy people who rewire your brain towards love.»

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

An undeveloped brain can not possess the capacity for self - determination, so it is up to the mother to make the choice.

A major reason is that teens have physical impulses and capacities for sex without having fully developed brains.

Because girls» capacity for language (located primarily in the left brain) matures earlier than boys», they rely more on verbal skills in solving problems, including nonverbal problems such as spatial tasks.

This is very interesting, but we can not safely conclude that this is the event that triggered the mutation for the increased brain capacity occasioning the creation of the soul, and that therefore the first human community consisted of many thousands.

However, abortion is NOT evil, because what you call a «baby» is actually a zygote, embryo or fetus that has not yet developed a brain so therefore has no capacity for thought or consciousness, and therefore is not yet a person.

Moreover, the present wealth of America and its future capacity for producing goods and services have been built up over many years by the brains and brawn of many people.

Animal brains don't have the cognitive capacity for «imagination» and abstract thinking like a human being.

Think of the brain, for instance, with its capacity for recording facts, sounds, odors, sights, touch, pain; with its ability to recall; with its power to make computations; with its seemingly endless flair for making decisions and solving problems.

First hand knowledge of mental illness shows you that ill people have the capacity to live good lives, unfortunately for them they have a mental disease like a tumor invading their brain... what you don't seem to understand is anything is a weapon.

Let me translate Andy's ramblings for you, Thinker: «I snapped in my judgement of the article, probably because I skimmed it, in a rush to post, or perhaps due to limited brain capacity.

For example, Wild Blueberries have double the antioxidant capacity of regular blueberries and recent research is suggesting that they may play an important role in gut and brain health and also lower the incidence of diabetes and certain cancers.

While the relevant Commonwealth Codes of Practice for «humane» commercial kangaroo shooting prescribe killing by a single shot to the brain, the capacity for a clean kill can be impaired by many factors.

For the most part, we can hang to the dramatics and anything that might land us in trouble, but even with all of our experience, our fully developed brains, and our capacity to see around corners, it's hard some days.

So to clarify, at 10 months old a baby has no capacity for high - order thinking, only able to engage their hindbrain (the part where the «fight or flight» response comes from) and their limbic system (the part of the brain responsible for emotions).

If these medications are found to significantly alter the brain's capacity for emotional regulation, then they might have a role to play.

«That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser on or about 12th December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and in such capacities entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: N90million which was in the account of the ONSA with Diamond Bank Plc, committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property by remitting the said sum into the account of Brains and Hammers Limited for the purchase of 7 - bedroom duplex house at No. 11 Mansur Bamalli Drive (D1064), Apo 1 Abuja and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

Mental Illness Across the Ages: From Children, to Adolescents, to Middle Aged and the Elderly [September 30, 2015] Mental illness is a brain disorder that often results in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

This phenomenon has been coined HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) and reflects the reorganisation of the brain as compensation for reduced brain capacity and efficiency due to age - related structural and physiological decline.

The brain's exact storage capacity for memories is difficult to calculate.

The finding raised the possibility of harnessing this regenerative capacity to mend damaged brains, which could translate into more effective treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The biological capacity for love is one way the brain prepares us for offspring who are born young and helpless and need tending to have the slightest hope of survival.

And similarly neuroscience, revolutionised by the capacity of PET scanning techniques to observe for the first time the brain «in action», promised to clarify the physical basis of the human mind, thinking, memorising, perceiving and interpreting the world «out there».

To support these claims, Gould presented the case of Samuel George Morton, a 19th - century American physician and scientist famous for his measurements of human skulls, particularly their cranial capacity (the skeletal equivalent of brain size).

For comparison, modern humans have a brain capacity of around 1,350 cubic centimeters.

Scientists have long known that the functional neural architecture for perception and cognition strongly depends upon plasticity: in other words, our brain has the capacity to change and adapt as a result of experience.

This confirmed that variations in PKRCA are linked to the capacity for emotional memory, and further revealed that they were also associated with differences in brain activity during memory encoding.

The researchers used a brain imaging technique called positron emission tomography to measure an index of the capacity for dopamine production in 30 men who were nicotine - dependent smokers and 15 nonsmokers.

The only consistent effect he could find was that the animals» overall capacity for memory fell in proportion to the number of neurons destroyed: The more brain cells lost, the more memories — all memories — weakened.

In fact, the brain's capacity for inventing new information - processing schemes is thought to explain the success of artificial cochleas, which have been implanted in the ears of approximately 100,000 hearing - impaired people around the world in the past few decades.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

The brain's capacity for pattern recognition is central to Goldberg's premise.

Artistic expression has all the earmarks of a genetically evolved capacity: It appears early in life, is enjoyable for its own sake, exists across all cultures, and is mediated by ancient neural pathways in the brain.

Similar to sport and physical activity, drugs for treatment of depressions act on the brain's capacity to absorb serotonin.

«We now have the first marker for the capacity of brain immune cells to remove toxic materials,» says Haass, «and its increase long before full Alzheimer's dementia shows that there is early neuronal injury that does not yet affect memory, but already triggers a microglia response.»

Finally, when our brain's capacity for memorisation became inadequate to cope with the overload of information it was receiving, we learned to write — and developed what we now think of as culture.

This could be one of the mechanisms responsible for the reduced regeneration capacity in the aged brain as stem cells that retain larger amounts of damaged proteins require longer for the next cell division.

«The brain has a limited capacity for recovery after stroke,» Carmichael said.

Gould has talked about the capacity for language arising as a secondary property of a brain that became large for other reasons.

The recent study published in the journal PloS ONE by Susanne Shultz of Manchester University and me statistically links for the first time the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity, and the movement out of Africa to the appearance and disappearance of deep freshwater lakes (confirming the original work by Martin Trauth and myself).

Interneuron cell - based therapy in AD and related models: During brain development, embryonic interneuron precursors are generated in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) and retain a remarkable capacity for migration and integration in adult host brains, where they fully mature into functional inhibitory interneurons.

The 2016 Kavli Prize laureates discuss the brain's remarkable capacity for change and how that is causing us to rethink human potential.