Sentences with phrase «brain networks involved»

New research suggests that advances in the production of Early Stone Age tools had less to do with the evolution of language and more to do with the brain networks involved in modern piano playing.

Now that neuroscientists have a reasonable idea of how that territory is divided, we find ourselves looking at a strange assortment of brain networks involved with smell, hunger, pain, goal setting, temperature, prediction, and hundreds of other tasks.

The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate connectivity in two brain networks involved in social processing: theory of mind (ToM, otherwise known as the mentalizing system, which allows an individual to infer what others are thinking, their beliefs, their intentions) and the mirror neuron system (MNS, which allows people to understand the meanings and actions of others by simulating and replicating them).

«This excess ToM - MNS connectivity may reflect immature or aberrant developmental processes in two brain networks involved in understanding of others, a domain impairment in ASD.

«There may be so much internal communication that the brain becomes preoccupied with itself, less able to process information coming in from the outside world,» he says, noting that studies have found that people with depression have heightened connectivity among brain networks involved in paying attention, monitoring internal and external cues, remembering the past, and controlling emotions.

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

Not exact matches

MRIs of the brain show that social thinking and analytical thinking involve entirely different neural networks and that they operate something like a seesaw.

That's because the brain is involved, and — as an astoundingly complex network of 100 billion cells and their 100 trillion connections — the organ does not easily loose its secrets.

The genes in the network are thought to be involved in how brain cells communicate with each other.

However, in brains at rest in people with aphasia, networks involved in hearing, motor processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the same networks in the control group.

Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.

In their new study, the researchers have shown that this second network acts on the one directly involved in the seizure, influencing whether the pathological synchronization remains confined to a local area or spreads across the brain.

Since most cognitive processes involve multiple parts of the brain working together, injury to white matter can impair the brain's communication network and may result in cognitive problems.

Those experiencing PLEs spent less time in a more «typical» reoccurring brain state involving cognitive networks.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

This large - scale epileptic network comprises various areas of the brain involved in normal brain activity during both seizure - free intervals and those involved in so - called pathophysiological activities such as seizures.

The brain scans also showed that the A allele was associated with increased activity in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex, regions that belong to a network involved in the encoding of emotional memories.

More specifically, the team found that a diet lacking ample omega - 3 decreased the function of presynaptic cannabinoid receptors, part of the brain's signaling network that is thought to be involved in pain and appetite regulation.

This work, published in May in the journal Brain, adds invaluable information to our understanding of amusia and, more generally, of the «musical brain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of mBrain, adds invaluable information to our understanding of amusia and, more generally, of the «musical brain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of mbrain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of music.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

This loss, however, is not necessarily a bad thing (according to Hoekzema, «the localization was quite remarkable»); it occurred in brain regions involved in social cognition, particularly in the network dedicated to theory of mind, which helps us think about what is going on in someone else's mind — regions that had the strongest response when mothers looked at photos of their infants.

Based on anatomical sites with muted slow - wave activity, the researchers suspect the first - night effect involves the default - mode network, a system of interacting brain regions involved in daydreaming and spontaneous thoughts.

While the data showed that regions across the brain were involved in creative thought, Beaty said the evidence pointed to three subnetworks — the default mode network, the salience network and the executive control network — that appear to play key roles in creative thought.

The latest work paints a picture of LSD and some other hallucinogens as drugs that can decrease modularity and connectivity within brain networks while enhancing the brain's overall connectivity, explains Frederick Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who has studied hallucinogenic drug effects but was not involved in the research released this week.

Creativity, meanwhile, appears to involve the brain's resting network, a chain of coordinated regions, including areas of the cortex and hippocampus, which is active while daydreaming or reflecting.

A network of brain regions involved in self - disclosure on Facebook has been determined, according to a new study published in the open - access journal Scientific Reports.

«Our study reveals a network of brain regions involved in the sharing of self - related information on social media,» says Meshi.

Sylvia's scans showed that her musical hallucinations seemed to be generated by a network of higher brain regions, including those that process melodies and sequences of tones, and areas involved in imagery and memory.

As we struggle to resist, inhibitory cognitive control networks involving the front of the brain activate to squelch the impulse by tempering its appeal.

The possibility that subconscious networks in the brain sense pheromones and alter our behavior is very interesting but challenging to prove, says Ivanka Savic - Berglund, a neurologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm who was not involved with the work.

The «default network» is an area of the brain thought to be involved in autobiographical mental imagery and sense of self; it may also be associated with daydreaming.

The network of brain regions discovered in this study is not only involved in very advanced mathematics, but also when processing numbers and mental arithmetic.

«Identification of a network of brain regions involved in mathematics.»

Studies of earworms can help to understand how brain networks, which are involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts, behave in different people, the authors said.

And two of our goals involve developing templates for how to design apps in any language that best represent our knowledge of the reading brain and forming communications networks around the globe in which children can teach one another the words that describe their worlds.

Although the neural networks that seem to be affected in Tourette's and OCD are distinct, they nonetheless involve brain regions with similar functions — in particular, motor activity and decision making.

Monitoring networks of electrical brain activity holds promise for understanding not only depression, but other forms of mental illness as well, said Conor Liston, an assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine who was not involved in the study.

Currently I am involved in a very interesting project: The study of the network oscillations in the brain using an in - vitro animal model and a new high resolution microelectronic device.

To test whether learning with language impacts which brain networks are involved in stone toolmaking, 15 of the 31 participants learned to knap stone via verbal instruction by watching videos of a skilled knapper's hands during individual training sessions.

An important aspect of this work was the discovery of a unique neural network in the brain that has come to be known as the default network — a network of parts of the brain that are active when someone is involved in internal thoughts, such as daydreaming or retrieving memories.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) assessed the strength of hippocampal connections to an extensive network of brain regions involved in emotion.

Activity of this brain network increases during positive feedback, and is accompanied by the release of dopamine, a brain chemical involved in transferring information between brain areas.

When the brain forms a memory, part of the process involves physically moving that memory from a neural network that supports short - term memory to one that holds long - term memories.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

Human cognition does not emerge from a single brain region but depends on a team effort involving multiple brain networks.

Significant connections are found between brain networks known to be implicated in the behavioral tasks involved.

In brain network analyses involving networks from multiple subjects, some researchers generate an average network in order to summarize the common network characteristics present among the study subjects [10], [11], [13], [27].

The behavioral and neuronal bases of executive function have been well studied in neuropsychological patients (12 ⇓ — 14) and with functional neuroimaging (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17), which confirm that executive function is supported by a network of brain regions, primarily involving the frontal lobes and the posterior parietal cortex (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17).

The areas of the brain involved in processing emotions, recalling memories, and thinking about the future are connected together in what is known as the default mode network, or DMN.

The study also revealed that an area of the brain called the default mode network, which is involved in activities like daydreaming and thinking about the past and the future, shows greater neural connectivity in meditators than nonmeditators.