In contrast, typically developing children have a larger shift in
brain connectivity when they perform tasks.
Not exact matches
When hearing a preferred genre or favourite song, the
brain showed greater
connectivity in a region called the default mode network (DMN).
The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional
connectivity» in the adult human
brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which
brain regions have synchronized activity
when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.
Connectomics not only maps the circuitry of the links and nodes, the so - called structural
connectivity of the
brain, but also the dynamic correlations that arise among regions
when circuits are active: the functional
connectivity.
They also found that the disruption of the
connectivity of these cells during
brain development causes alterations in
brain oscillatory activity and disturbs the function of place cells, a type of pyramidal neuron that becomes active
when an animal is located in a particular place in its environment.
Previous work had shown that spines grow
when neurons undergo long - term potentiation, a persistent strengthening of synaptic
connectivity that happens naturally in the
brain but can also be artificially induced through stimulation.
When the goal was to increase functional
connectivity, a monetary reward was given on trials with high temporal correlation between the two relevant
brain activities was detected.
Researchers used MRI to assess the strength of functional
connectivity in the default - mode network, which are the regions of the
brain most active
when a person is in wakeful rest.
«Imagine having a
brain that is only 10 per cent active, that shrinks
when you drink less than six to eight glasses of water a day and that increases its inter-hemispheric
connectivity when you rub two invisible buttons on your chest.