Sentences with phrase «brain processing involved»

In autism, for example, his preliminary work suggests that there are more pronounced differences in brain processing involved in distinguishing faces from objects; in schizophrenia, there are greater differences related to decoding emotions.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

The brain processes involved in consciousness are the topic of some debate.

Philosophy isn't about the brain processes involved in our experiences; what philosophers try to do is to explain these experiences themselves by uncovering their structural characteristics.

The study, led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) and published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the most detailed understanding yet of the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol abuse.

The word cognitive comes from cognition, which refers to the brain processes involved in gathering, analyzing and using information.

Not exact matches

The amygdala is part of the brain system involved with processing emotions.

But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.

A visual experience, for instance, lends itself to description as a complex semiotic process involving transmissions and integrations of signs, or bits of information, to a central organ, the brain, and more localized processes of selection, sorting, and evaluation (i.e., gradations as to relevance of various types of information) that sometimes issue in tentative (and often only vague) interpretations.

It will be a mutation of the soul and the spirit that will span months and years; it will involve enlarging muscle mass and increasing brain power; it will include the hormonal process by which a girl becomes a woman; it will entail the spiritual journey of a gifted amateur into a professional; and, even more burdensome and fascinating, it will require Michelle to publicly assume the role for which she is being cast — the greatest women's golfer ever, a potential savior of her sport.

She's actively involved in the homeschooling community and owns Brain Bump Consulting, a website devoted to helping homeschooling families navigate the college application process without losing their sanity.

«a disease process in the brain, involving the cortical neurones, brought about by an autointoxication... as a result of a disorder of metabolism.»

Learning disabilities in basic reading likely involve difficulty with language processing and visual reasoning centers of the brain.

Multiple brain structures and processes are involved in the process of attachment, the foundation of optimal mental and physical health.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

Recognizing rhythms doesn't involve just parts of the brain that process sound — it also relies on a brain region involved with movement, researchers report online January 18 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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.

In one group of robins, the team removed cluster N, a brain region involved in processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass information.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

But it is not just the function of immunological molecules in the developing brain that the new findings might help illuminate — they could also help explain the molecular processes involved in neurodegeneration, the researchers say.

Some neurologists suspect that the cortical spreading depression may begin in a section of the brain not involved in sensory processing, so the initial effects aren't noticeable.

Now neuroscientist Christopher I. Moore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has proposed a new theory behind the excess flow — the blood, he says, may actually be involved in information processing in the brain.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

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.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

After exposure, there was a significantly greater decrease in blood flow in specific brain areas, particularly those involved in odor processing, in the chemically intolerant patients.

That control lies with the brain's executive functions, processes that handle attention, inhibition, working memory and cognitive flexibility and are also involved in reasoning, problem - solving and planning.

«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.

A neurochemical messenger involved in the brain's processing of reward, dopamine moderates all manner of experiences, from the perception of happiness to sexual ecstasy to the enjoyment of chocolate.

The first step in the process involves inserting into those brain cells a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein.

This pruning changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the brain involved with processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

When they examined these participants» brain images, one pattern in particular stuck out: People who got earworms more often had a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound.

We know, for example, that different areas of the brain are involved in processing color and form of visual images.

A brief period of postnatal visual deprivation, when early in life, drives a rewiring of the brain areas involved in visual processing, even if the visual restoration is completed well before the baby reaches one year of age, researchers at the University of Trento, McMaster University, and the University of Montreal revealed in Current Biology.

Sweatt believes that his findings in the hippocampus apply to other regions involved in memory processing, including the cortex, the brain's outermost layer, and the amygdala, two almond - shaped structures in the midbrain.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

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.

«So the visual speed - of - processing training directly improves brain functions involved in driving safely, making them faster and more accurate.»

When subjects decided to donate their money, Harbaugh and Mayr found, brain areas involved in processing rewards lit up more than they did when the decision to donate was not their own, but was instead dictated by the experimenters.

Each of the defense reactions, she explains, involves activation of motor and arousal centers in the brain and changes in pain and sensory processing.

«The brain region for balance, movement also involved in processing traumatic memories.»

In Callie's scans, Berns observes activation in the caudate, a brain region involved in processing rewards, after exposing her to the smell of his daughter.

Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich, Zurich University Hospital and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich now reveals that the successful treatment of an anxiety disorder alters key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions.

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

Mice with a form of dementia have had the condition reversed by a process that involves «rebooting» brain cells otherwise destined to die.

«Those findings also suggest that FGF21 is regulated the same way in humans as in mice and that the process involves the expression and activation of certain proteins in the brain.»