Sentences with phrase «brain patterns for»

Not exact matches

Our brains are remarkably good at some things, like pattern - matching, and we certainly do have a capacity for logic and reason.

For years, scientists have believed that the same sections of the brain are used by every person to generate emotions like a smile or frown; they fall into a rigid pattern.

Our eyes and brains are built for rapidly processing complex data, but they prefer to analyze images and patterns over individual letters and text.

It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

For conceptual acts like Schwartz's «mindful attention» to permanently alter patterns of brain activity that otherwise would remain stuck is therefore exactly what one would expect if the mind transcends the brain and yet is capable of physical effects.

That's okay because we are hard wired to find order in chaos, that's why we see patterns where there are none, that's why we fall for optical illusions, our brains want to find order.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance, in cell division or in the repetition of similar circuit patterns in the excitation of the brain), and inheritance thus has in it that same discontinuity.

For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that brain wave patterns deviate most from patterns of neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

Especially in infancy, children's brains are looking for patterns in the world around them.

Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).

Their brains look for patterns, in the same way that our brains look for patterns.

During the first six months of life, explains Michael Goodstein, neonatologist and director of the York County Cribs for Kids Program at York Hospital in York, PA, a baby experiences rapid brain growth and developmental changes that affect sleep patterns, cardiorespiratory control, metabolism, and physical ability.

It is also notable for its pattern of brain activity, which resembles that of the waking brain.

It's important for brain development, and may play a role in shaping sleep patterns as well.

This is important, because research points to Quiet Sleep as one of the most beneficial for accelerating brain patterning and maturation.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in other areas of the brain as well.

The experiment revealed that after the phone was switched to «talk» mode a different brain - wave pattern, called delta waves (in the range of one to four Hertz), remained dampened for nearly one hour after the phone was shut off.

People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical activity, but not light - intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.

In a study published in June in Psychological Science, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common brain - activation patterns and that these patterns are everyday neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract science.

Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing — and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.

«This raises several questions for us, such as why is there a difference in brain pattern and might it reflect differences in health issues for men and women, particularly in cardiovascular disease variations,» Macey said.

Similarly, there are rhythms and patterns out in the world, and for the last 20 years, scientists have been perplexed by the brain's ability to «entrain,» or match up, with these patterns.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

Some research, for example, shows that patterns of brain activity can predict our choices or actions before we become consciously aware of having made a decision, and it may be hard to reconcile this evidence with the notion of free will.

The researchers found that the brain is constrained to take neural activity patterns it already knows and use them for the new task.

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

«Our research looked for such common patterns in brain development by providing the first data on brain growth for three species of marsupial mammals and the results show that this hypothesis does not work.

«We used the Allen Human Brain Atlas data to quantify how consistent the patterns of expression for various genes are across human brains, and to determine the importance of the most consistent and reproducible genes for brain function.&rBrain Atlas data to quantify how consistent the patterns of expression for various genes are across human brains, and to determine the importance of the most consistent and reproducible genes for brain function.&rbrain function.»

«For these cell - level «rules» to be translated into specific brain proportions, we would also expect to see these rules reflected in predictable growth patterns of the mammalian brain, particularly in species from the same group of mammals,» she said.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

«The human brain is phenomenally complex, so it is quite surprising that a small number of patterns can explain most of the gene variability across the brain,» says Christof Koch, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Scibrain is phenomenally complex, so it is quite surprising that a small number of patterns can explain most of the gene variability across the brain,» says Christof Koch, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Scibrain,» says Christof Koch, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain SciBrain Science.

The possibilities are both terrifying and amazing: Brain implants might be the key to interspecies communication, for instance, and could offer true immortality as our brain patterns find new life in the belly of a macBrain implants might be the key to interspecies communication, for instance, and could offer true immortality as our brain patterns find new life in the belly of a macbrain patterns find new life in the belly of a machine.

When the researchers analysed the activity in an area of the brain that is important for the production of song — an area known as nucleus RA — they found a clear correlation between its activity pattern and the occurrence of the «stack» call.

«Looking at the data from this unique vantage point enables us to study gene patterning that we all share,» says Mike Hawrylycz, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

ELECTRICAL shocks that simulate the patterns seen in the brain when you are learning have enhanced human memory for the first time, boosting performance on tests by up to 30 per cent.

For a long time, scientists presumed that emotional factors caused Persistent Developmental Stuttering (PDS), but a team of researchers, led by Anne Foundas of Tulane University, has discovered interesting patterns that suggest otherwise in the brains of PDS patients.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

Although many areas of the brain contain synapses capable of creating strong patterns of connectivity, the hippocampus is a particularly favorable spot for recording memories.

Prior work by Bradley S. Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind (IDM) at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and colleagues showed that individuals at familial risk for depression — whether or not they have exhibited signs of depression in the past — have a pattern of thinning in certain cortical regions of the brain.

Beyond mapping the precise locations of the brain areas controlling these movements for the first time, Chang and colleagues also recorded and analyzed patterns of neuron activity in those areas.

In contrast, patterns of empathic distress overlapped with systems in the brain known for mirroring, such as the premotor cortex and the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices, which help an individual simulate or imagine what another person is feeling or thinking.

Before making decisions about which way to turn, for example, rats pause to retrace their steps by reactivating patterns of brain activity established in previous explorations.