Sentences with phrase «brain patterns even»

Not exact matches

According to David Randall, the author of Dreamland, even a short nap «primes our brains to function at a higher level, letting us come up with better ideas, find solutions to puzzles more quickly, identify patterns faster and recall information more accurately.»

«Our brains are hard - wired to get us into investing trouble; humans are pattern - seeking animals... Our brains are designed to perceive trends even where they might not exist.

(3) Finally, even if there is a one - to - one correlation between the presence of consciousness and the presence of certain brain wave patterns, this establishes at most a one - to - one correlation, not an identity.

Their young brains are recognizing patterns in words they may see in a book, even before they know what those patterns mean or what the words mean.

By analysing the patterns of brain activity when volunteers read or listened to sentences containing hard - to - detect semantic anomalies - words that fit the general context even though they do not actually make sense - the researchers found that when a volunteer was tricked by the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous word.

The findings, in mice, suggest we may be able to read people's memories by examining the patterns in their brains, and even one day alter or repair them to treat psychiatric disorders or memory loss.

«So, if you laid down a powerful pattern that this person was your life partner, your brain can retain traces of that circuitry, even after you've bonded with someone new.»

Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.

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.

Intriguingly, if the brain fuses the images, it has a strong tendency to complete either the monkey or the foliage — even though doing so requires assembling fragments from two different eyes to complete the patterns.

Or even whether other people who use both hands almost equally would show similar brain patterns.

And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.

Resting state networks (RSNs), sometimes called the «dark energy of the brain», are patterns of low - frequency brain activity that are constantly active, even when a person is asleep.

To counteract the pattern of age - related losses and even enhance the brain's inner workings by «thinking» in smarter ways is an achievable and highly desirable goal.»

In new research published, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Germany and the USA show that the way in which the brain organizes its visual sense remains intact even in people who are blind from birth, and that at least the pattern of functional connectivity between the visual area and the topographical representation of space (up / down, left / right, etc.) can develop on its own without any actual visual experience.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

This memory speeds up recognition of sounds in the learner's native language and can be detected as a pattern of brain waves, even in a sleeping baby.

These patterns persist even when the brain's main clock - setting area, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), is damaged or destroyed.

Seymour says that even when the study subjects were simply resting, the researchers could see short moments of brain activity patterns with features of the specific fear memory.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned on at a given moment.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms...

No problem: «Research has shown that even a 15 - minute seated massage at work can change your brain wave pattern to increase alertness, improve focus, and boost performance on quantitative tasks,» says Marilyn Kier, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and founder of Wellness At Work in Northfield, Illinois.

Patterns are tough to release completely when they are wired in our brain chemistry and energetic body for years, even lifetimes.

Exhaustion Cure: Learned Optimism Optimism can be learned, Borysenko insists, «even though we might have ingrained patterns and brain circuitry that support negative thinking.»

Heavy snoring can even lead to sleep apnea, which interrupts regular breathing patterns and may impede oxygen flow to the body and brain.

SIBO in particular can be the root cause of IBS and other mental health complaints which can include abdominal pain, bloating, gas, nausea, change in bowel pattern as well as fatigue, brain fog, anxiety and even depression.

It becomes a vicious cycle where the emergency response breathing pattern persists even after the emergency had passed and continues to send signals to the brain that the danger is still present.

I don't believe he even has the ability to process cognitive brain patterns.

Intriguingly, according to reporting in The New York Times, «block printing, cursive, and typing each elicit distinctive neurological patterns,» implying a deep, underlying sensitivity in the brain to even minor changes in the way letters are rendered on the page.

This information is then sent off to the mirror neurons of the brain and these cells remap the patterns of running, tackling or passing onto the appropriate sequence of muscle twitches that help you produce the identical actions — even while your butt is firmly planted on the couch.

Maybe these ivory tower, incredible lame - brains might try explaining to the science teachers, or even the prestigious «science» journals, how it is possible to stop the continuous natural climate change or those pesky major cyclical climate patterns.

There are gorgeous fairisle bauble patterns out there (Arne and Carlos, I'm looking at you), but this post is all about ideas that, (i) are so simple that even a child could make them, (ii) are quick, and (iii) dropped out of my leaky brain and onto this screen on a wet Wednesday afternoon.