Sentences with phrase «brain measures of»

«We found that the degree to which infants visually tracked the tutors and the toys they held was linked to brain measures of infant learning, showing that social behaviors give helpful information to babies in a complex natural language learning situation,» Kuhl said.

Not exact matches

He eventually plans to merge his robotics brain with clothing design to put sensors into apparel that both could measure a person's vital signs and the conditions of his or her surroundings.

Tons of people who have objectively bad sleep as measured by surveys, brain waves, and sleep diaries actually don't feel troubled about their sleep at all.

The researchers then used brain imaging to measure the functionality of peoples» white matter and had them take a series of cognitive tests designed to measure how sharp they were.

Zak's team measured the brain activity of people while they worked and discovered that trust is truly the secret sauce of what makes work exciting, productive, and innovative.

The $ 299 device measures brain electrical activity via 16 scalp sensors, which the company claims allow recognition of basic emotions and up to 30 specific thoughts, such as «lift this object,» «fire death ray,» or «fly forward.»

Measuring brain waves, of course, isn't such a big deal.

The research (which thrills me personally) was led by Larry Stevens, a Northern Arizona University psychologist, and involved looking at the effects of eating dark chocolate on the brain, using an EEG machine to measure brain activity.

A research project connected to the British television show The Secret Life of Buildings attached brain - wave measuring devices to people's heads and found that the low - level racket endemic to open workplaces interrupts one's concentration.

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

While some of the more measured commenters explained that watching video games was akin to watching sports, others wished AIDS, brain cancer and other violent death scenarios (of questionable grammatical formulation) upon the host.

So what can scientists learn by measuring your brain activity when, say, you listen to a cello solo or view a piece of art?

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

It is NOT apparent that «religious ecstasy» (whatever in the world that could factually be or how it could be measured) correlates to neurological signatures across wider swaths of brain regions than formerly believed.

In fact, the brain signatures that have been measured in the studies I cursorily submitted seem to support the very opposite of mental illness.

Researchers can identify the parts of the brain responsible for these emotions and measure synaptic activity corresponding to them.

We use the electromyrograph (EMG) to measure muscle tension and the galvanic skin response indicator (GSR)-- almost a sort of lie detector — to chart emotional swings, and other instruments to measure brain waves (electroencephalograph — EEC) and body temperature.

A scientific account of human values is one that measures the outcome of world states with the outcome of brain states.

«god» has allegedly been measured in the brain but is indistinguishable from the effects of drugs.

In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in utero.

Physicists could probably even measure the vibration of something or other, brain guys could tell you a myriad of special occurrences occur when someone is inventing or composing or painting that is worth its weight in endorphins, good vibes, seratonin, and whatever it is that can even overthrow evil.

No, I didn't measure the exact amount but in my stingy brain, it didn't seem bad considering I had visions of using a whole bottle or so.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

That's right after a decade of sighs I sometimes think it must be nice to be lobotomised but then the brain kicks in and a measured assessment of results and performance lead to one simple conclusion if the club is to return to the top bracket of european football where true fans want us to be... Wenger out,,

Winning mentality Work rate Ball winning ability Football brain of the street type And many other stuffs not measured by OPTA.

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

«Beyond that, it relates those measures of brain structure to cognition.»

The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective measures of many aspects of brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.

Researchers looked at the brain wave patterns of babies as a measure of depression.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

The researchers used functional near - infrared spectroscopy, a technology that measures oxygenation in regions of the brain using light, to assess the babies» brain activity.

«(The) level of brain abnormality correlates strongly with the measure of head impacts of great enough severity to warrant being taken out of play.

Scientists measured brain activity and noted a tightening of the eyelids just after the babies heard the musical tone.

The measure, which limits practices with full - on tackling during the playing season and prohibits them during most of the off - season, comes amid growing concern nationwide over brain damage that can result from concussions among student as well as professional athletes.

An author of a new medical study said the high cost of paying injured N.H.L. players should push the league to stiffen what he described as inadequate measures to prevent brain trauma, including rules that still allow fighting.

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

Meanwhile, another measure would increase the number of illnesses that would be applicable to a medical marijuana prescription: PTSD, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, wasting syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

«Everybody else has probably some kind of subtle effect that you can't measure on their brain development, on their lung development, on their immune system.»

It is not surprising that there has been a thirst for more objective measures of criminal intent — a genetic test, a scan of certain areas of the brain — that might yield a better understanding of what motivates unlawful behavior, Hyman said.

Most groups have focused on detecting proteins released from dying brain cells, but those proteins are not always abundant after injury and often require exotic or proprietary antibodies to measure, said study corresponding author Adam Chodobski, associate professor (research) of emergency medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Because its powerful technology can measure microstructural features in the brain, such as the diameter of nerve cell axons, it enables researchers to answer entirely new questions, says CUBRIC director Derek Jones.

He is planning to conduct a prescribed exercise intervention in a population of healthy older adults with genetic and other risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and to measure the impact on hippocampal volume and brain function.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

Senior study author Katsuhiko Yanagisawa, director general of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan, is convinced that enough amyloid penetrates the blood — brain barrier to make its way into the bloodstream to be a useful measure of cognitive function.

«Practice makes perfect, study confirms: Researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.»

Activity in the PFC region of the mens» brains was measured throughout the test using a unique neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS.