Sentences with phrase «brain regions»

The subjects who'd had little exposure to the Internet before the study showed activity in brain regions involved in vision, language and reading.

Then the researchers measured inner ear function by placing electrodes on mice's heads and monitoring activity of brain regions involved in hearing.

Both were told to fight their hunger, but only men showed a drop in activity in brain regions involved in emotion and motivation.

A map of brain regions associated with language processing in the human cerebral cortex.

The specific brain regions in question are critical to the processing of emotions.

How do different brain regions interact with each other?

A study finds that when elderly Internet users surf the Web, they exercise brain regions responsible for reasoning and decision making.

The efficiency of brain networks was defined by the researchers in terms of the strength and direction of connections, or edges, between brain regions of interest, or nodes.

They also plan to examine the potential role of other brain regions involved learning and memory.

They would then examine brain regions known to regulate motivation for the molecular changes that accompany observed behavioral changes.

The condition has been linked to widespread reduction in the brain's tissue volume but it was observed that certain brain regions show a subtle increase in tissue over time.

In school - age children previously diagnosed with depression as preschoolers, a key brain region involved in emotion is smaller than in their peers who were not depressed, scientists have shown.

Then it was a question of which brain region to focus on.

The study found increased activity in several brain regions associated with processing of negative emotions when they listened to the critical statements.

The same can be said for patterns of gene expression changes in the same brain region for different age frames.

The researchers presented the overlapping streams at two different rhythms — two images per second and 1.5 images per second — allowing them to identify brain regions responding to those stimuli.

The present study attempts to examine the happy facial expressions and its related brain regions.

Besides differences in the sizes of particular brain regions, however, no other potential explanations have surfaced.

The most active brain regions use — and thereby contain — the most oxygen.

Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two.

There is evidence that the male brain uses either one hemisphere or the other and relies on specialized brain regions when performing a task.

However, neural activity patterns associated with working memory are distributed across many brain regions.

In some cases, surgical removal of a small brain region is the best option.

Additionally, there were greater activity in the targeted brain region in participants who took fructose, meaning they had heightened desire to eat.

He could see that movement - controlling brain regions become active about a quarter of a second before subjects said they'd consciously decided to push the button.

New model mimics the connectivity of the brain by connecting three distinct brain regions on a chip.

Brain scans taken after the exercise intervention showed a significant decrease in the intensity of brain activation in eleven brain regions while participants correctly identified famous names.

If individual brain regions are too isolated from one another or are interconnected at random, will be low.

And research suggests other brain regions play a role in contagious itching in people, he says.

We need to image brain circuits in humans to understand what brain regions take part in these processes and how they interact.

This method can interrupt the activity of single brain regions for a short period of time and can therefore measure the brain's reaction to this impairment.

In imaging studies in humans, similar brain regions are turned on when people are suffering from cocaine craving.

But before an impulse purchase was made, some higher brain regions stepped in, telling me: You already own those shades!

These neurons are connected to other brain regions via long - range projections.

To reduce the symptoms and train healthy brain regions to assume the lost functions, victims need aggressive medical treatment followed by extensive, long - term physical therapy.

«Brain regions don't exist in a vacuum,» he said.

All the kids showed the expected early response that develops in brain regions located at the back of the head, above the visual cortex.

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

A large - scale network of brain regions seems to be responsible — not surprising, given the complexity of the task.

And that may be because man and man's best friend use analogous brain regions to process voices.

The results are somewhat ambiguous, since brain regions respond differently to different drugs.

They show connections between brain regions rather than brain cells.

In both humans and flies, dopamine - releasing cells may help coordinate distant brain regions involved in the phenomenon of attention.

Watching pornography calls upon brain regions associated with reward, sensory interpretation, and visual processing.

Human emotions arise from a network of interconnected brain regions.

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.

Then an increase in electrical activity occurred in a second brain region.