Sentences with phrase «brain firing patterns»

Britton hypothesized that people who have undergone a near - death experience might show the same altered brain firing patterns as people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Not exact matches

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

As you read these lines, they induce different firing patterns in the brain.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

Now, researchers have discovered that the drug changes the firing patterns of cells in a pea - size structure hidden away in the center of the brain.

The technology, part of an 18 - month, $ 2.4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) undertaking, relies on electroencephalography (EEG) to detect the cascade of neural firing patterns in your brain when you spot something novel or interesting, even if you're unaware of it.

Whenever he sees something that stands out, his brain exhibits a distinct firing pattern associated with «aha» moments.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

Then we convert images into a codelike pattern of light pulses that activates the modified genes and causes the output cells to fire off a message to the brain.

Normal patterns of brain firing are seemingly chaotic, but during a seizure, neurons synchronize and fire convulsively in parallel.

A computer algorithm processed the monkey's brain activity, homing in on patterns of neurons firing as it learned to do the task.

His reputation was cinched when Stephen Colbert, on Comedy Central's Colbert Report, asked Pinker to explain how the brain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rbrain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rBrain cells fire in patterns.»

Since the pulses of light exert highly precise control over the neurons, it opens the possibility of very selective studies of firing patterns in brain regions of interest.

As the object gets familiar, this oscillation — or pattern of firing from a group of brain cells — decreases, to around 11 Hz.

To compare these patterns to the actual electrical activity in the brains, the researchers inserted electrodes capable of recording the firing patterns of individual neurons.

Further experiments suggested the different effects may be due to a unique firing pattern by inhibitory neurons in a neighboring brain region, the zona incerta, during low frequency stimulation.

These «delayed response tasks» suggest that working memory, at the level of brain cells, is the result of self - sustaining patterns of neural activity — a group of neurons starts firing when the initial information is presented and maintains that firing internally when the stimulus is no longer present until the animal acts on that information.

Calcium imaging also showed that the neurons in the organoid were not firing sparsely, with isolated activity, as in cultured brain organoids, but in synchronized patterns, suggesting an active neuronal network was developing.

When the vertebral joints lose proper positioning and alignment, it leads to abnormal motion and movement, which affects how the brain communicates with the body and alters the firing pattern in the central nervous system.

Not only are you sapping your brain power but you are firing and re-firing the same brain patterns over and over again, using all the same nutrients up over and over again.