Sentences with phrase «brain networks like»

Like an airline hub, the brain's main connector hubs link to multiple brain networks like transfer stations.

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.

The logo of Cambridge Analytica — a brain composed of network nodes, like a map, appears behind Alexander Nix.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Summer is nearly here, which means its time for America's major television networks to fire off the failed sitcoms for which they have no hope, and the low - effort, brain - numbing content that requires no effort — like rounding up «celebrities» and putting them in awkward situations.

It looks like prenatal stress turns up the volume on your baby's HPA axis, programming the brain and hormone network that's responsible for managing stress.

If brain regions are like self - contained computers, then the brain as a whole is a computer network.

Like the router in a computer network, the brain's version can be reconfigured to send signals to different locations.

«What we can see is that space - time at the quantum - scale might be networked in a very similar way to things we are starting to understand very well like biological networks in cells, our brains and online social networks.»

A flurry of coordinated activity in a brain - spanning network of neurons may sound like the formation of a brilliant new idea, but it is actually the description of a seizure.

The participants who reported the psychotic - like experiences (PLEs)-- considered to be at the low end of the psychosis spectrum — spent less time in a brain state reflecting healthier brain network activity.

Bentley's machine is inspired by biological networks like the brain, in which billions of neurons are each wired up to thousands of others.

Hovering above the brain like Casper the Friendly Ghost, the soul freely perturbs the networks of the brain, thereby triggering the neural activity that will ultimately lead to behavior.

In a new study, neuroscientists connected a network of electrodes to the hearing centers of 15 patients» brains (image above) and recorded the brain activity while they listened to words like «jazz» or «Waldo.»

«What I like most is the idea of combining information about everyday - life social networks with standardized brain imaging to assess implicit measures of social perception [that are relevant to the real world].»

Rather than being programmed, the neural network, like the human brain, responds to training: It can continually integrate new information and change its response accordingly.

Through the multiple trials, they confirmed that the spintronic devices have a learning ability with which the developed artificial neural network can successfully associate memorized patterns from their input noisy versions just like the human brain can.

AI is all around us — think: Siri, the iPhone - based personal assistant, or Watson, IBM's supercomputer that famously beat human contestants on Jeopardy! Both are examples of «deep learning» in which a computer absorbs and processes information via artificial neural networks that operate like the human brain.

A good idea can be like that — it stirs everything up — whether it is being shared throughout a network of cells in one person's brain or in the world at large, through a community of people.

Acting like synapses in the brain, the metal - oxide memristor array was capable of learning and re-learning input patterns in an unsupervised manner within a probabilistic winner - take - all (WTA) network.

If obese individuals must eat more and more to overcome reduced activation of reward networks in the brain, that sounds a lot like tolerance.

Surprisingly little study has been done on large, loopy networks like the ones in the brain — probably in part because it is easier to think about brains as tidy assembly lines than as dynamic networks.

«Ants are a lot smarter than we think they are — we call them superorganisms because they form networks that are much like our brains,» she says.

Using a fast code helps speed up thought, but to a large extent the brain — like a telegraph network — really depends on efficient pathways.

«The brain is inconceivably complex, so much so that trying to understand its mysteries through a network of equations is like trying to collect the sea with fishing nets.

Mice that are more vulnerable to developing depression - like symptoms show different networks of electrical brain activity than more resilient mice.

Like humans with AD, hAPP mice have elevated levels of amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain, network and synaptic dysfunction, and amyloid plaques (9).

«But the brain works by virtue of these connections that allow one nerve cell to talk to many other nerve cells, sort of like a Twitter account, and each nerve cell is also the recipient of a network of information from thousands of other nerve cells.»

«One of the overriding problems in disorders like autism, we think, is that it's a problem of communication between different areas of the brain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain Scibrain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain SciBrain Science.

In the brain, billions of excitatory neurons act like green traffic lights, driving other cells to fire in complicated networks of activity.

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.

That may sound like a case of lust rather than love, but lust and love involve very different brain networks.

Even when he's not reading from a skillful script, his ability to speak like Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher's «The Social Network» can capture and hold the attention of your turned - off brain.

What feels like doing two things at once is actually the brain shifting its processing from one neural network to another.

A year later, a study by McCandliss and Sumit Niogi that focused on brain structure found a connection between reading skills and white matter, the bundles of electricity - conducting tissues that link parts of the brain together, like the fiber - optic cable network to the Internet.

The KND Kindle Chronicles Interview: From Homer to Homer: Unnatural Acts, Words Like Loaded Pistols, and Rewiring Our Brains for the Pleasures of Reading — Len Edgerly Interviews Marshall Poe of New Books Network July 10, 2012 By LEN EDGERLY, Contributing Editor If you are like me and most other people, you seldom read a -LSB-Like Loaded Pistols, and Rewiring Our Brains for the Pleasures of Reading — Len Edgerly Interviews Marshall Poe of New Books Network July 10, 2012 By LEN EDGERLY, Contributing Editor If you are like me and most other people, you seldom read a -LSB-like me and most other people, you seldom read a -LSB-...]

Music simulation, music creation games, rhythm / action music games, dance games, karaoke, exercise aids, meditation aids (a small genre admittedly), vehicle simulation, social network Second Life stuff, Tetris, videogames that mimic traditional board and card games, games where you only avoid danger but never hurt anyone, farming games, games where you manage a business, games where you create and manage a family or a hospital or even a civilisation, sex simulation, dating games, art creation, cooking guides, brain training, pet caring, extreme sports like skateboarding or biking or freerunning, all sorts of puzzle and collecting games, games where you navigate mazes and obstacles, pinball, nonviolent detective and adventure or rpg games, interactive films or books.

The artist states «Like a parent or teacher teaching art to a student, I trained the artificial brain (a network of neurons) in my own artistic style.

We also spoke endlessly about grassroots organizing strategy and they picked my brain on how to build a national grassroots network in Russia, like the one I've managed for Orion magazine, to underpin a new Russian ecology movement.

Now, neural network architectures are enabling parallel computations, which work in synchronous and dynamic ways — more like how thinking works in biological brains.

In short, he believes what interviewer Naval Ravikant called «brain virus» is the true future of security and economics and, with the right incentives, Ethereum can replace things like credit card networks and even gaming servers.

During his interview by Naval Ravikant, he referred to the term known as «brain virus» calling it as the true future of economics and safety and said that if driven by the right incentives, Ethereum technology will be able to replace things like gaming servers and credit card networks.

The second - generation Samsung SmartThings Hub is designed to be the brain of your smart home ecosystem, much like a wireless router serves to connect everything to your Wi - Fi network.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

In the scientific literature, this process is called the «canalization» of brain networks (like building «canals» or channels in the brain).

I like calling it the «imagination brain network» — it allows you to imagine your future self, but it also allows you to imagine what someone else is thinking.»