Sentences with phrase «brain regions seems»

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

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It seems that a specific region of the human brain is set aside for religion.

[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.

Tracts of white matter, the fibers linking brain regions, seemed to have declined in the vets.

Now, neuroscientists in Japan who are working with survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have identified one brain region whose size seems to predict susceptibility to PTSD symptoms and another brain region that shrank slightly in people with the highest number of symptoms.

The group identified 12 categories of words — concepts such as time, location, emotion or social relevance — that seemed to activate more than 100 brain regions in different ways (Nature, doi.org/bfqp).

Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, etc..

Because women are less specialized, their brains seem to be more resilient — they recover faster and more easily from the effects of strokes — and better at compensating if one region is damaged.

The neuron - packed brain region — it's tucked underneath the cerebral hemispheres and plays a role in motor control and cognitive functions, such as attention and language — seemed to stop aging at the 80 - year benchmark, which meant it remained fully functional but somehow impervious to deterioration of time for decades.

«Long - range connections that allow this region to talk to other areas of the brain seem to drive function,» says Zeynep Saygin, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Resebrain seem to drive function,» says Zeynep Saygin, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain ReseBrain Research.

The key issue seems to be when the peripheral nervous system joins up with the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for higher thought processes such as memory, attention, thought, awareness and language.

«Social interactions seem to impose important cognitive challenges that must be met by enhanced investment in certain brain regions,» he says.

imagine By Jonah Lehrer Inspiration may seem as if it comes out of nowhere, but researchers have found that certain brain regions signal they have arrived at a eureka moment a full eight seconds before that feeling hits.

The first exam had seemed to show thick areas of new connections in the rear cortex of his brain, a region linked to awareness.

Although we do not fully understand how the olfactory cortex encodes these memories, we do know that olfactory memories seem to be particularly rich — perhaps because the olfactory cortex is closely connected to the brain regions important for recollection.

Although there is a good deal of evidence for some level of dissociation between multiple systems that approximate controlled and automatic processing respectively, with parts of the brain such as areas of frontal cortex (controlled) and limbic regions (automatic) implicated in these processes, it seems highly unlikely that there are dedicated, independent, sub-systems at the neural level that are specific to these modes of processing.

Sylvia's scans showed that her musical hallucinations seemed to be generated by a network of higher brain regions, including those that process melodies and sequences of tones, and areas involved in imagery and memory.

It seems to be the same whether you feel a spark of lechery, a surge of jealousy, or the sudden desire to pop somebody in the mouth: The two sides battle it out, the devilish reward system versus the angelic brain regions that hold us in check.

Alien hand seems to be caused by damage to a small area at the front of the brain, suggesting that this region has a role in motor control.

In this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists report that they have identified the region of the brain that seems to adjust a body's circadian clock in response to food.

They identified 12 categories of words — concepts such as time, location, emotion or social relevance — that seemed to activate more than 100 brain regions in different ways.

Although the neural networks that seem to be affected in Tourette's and OCD are distinct, they nonetheless involve brain regions with similar functions — in particular, motor activity and decision making.

«Our study seems to suggest that multilingual people are able to compensate for AD - related tissue loss by accessing alternative networks or other brain regions for memory processing.

While this seems like a fairly straightforward approach, neuron density differs in different regions of the brain.

«We've found that when the brain is deprived of input, whether visual or auditory, those regions that would normally process that input don't seem to have any trouble at all accepting a different type of sensory input,» says Lomber.

People who had practiced mindfulness meditation seemed to be using different brain regions than the other groups to reduce pain.

From a conventional perspective, for instance, the thyroid, seems to float of its own accord in the region of the throat, detached from the brain, the gut, the stomach, and a host of other hormonal and chemical actions and reactions.

Specifically, this reduced fuel usage is localized in regions of the brain involved in memory processing and learning.10, 11,21,24 PET scans of people at high risk for developing AD show that this decline occurs long before symptoms of AD are present, and seems to be the first step in a long chain of events whose eventual end is overt AD.

The idea surrounding learning styles seems to make sense, as there are different regions of the brain that are involved to a greater extent in certain functions.

Pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time — and seem to use a different region of the brain than humans and primates to do so.