Sentences with phrase «brain scanner»

A number of scientists study facial recognition by putting people in brain scanners and looking for regions that are especially active when the subjects look at faces.

Now, scientists using brain scanners and a crew of eager dogs have discovered that dog brains, too, have dedicated voice areas.

Training dogs to voluntarily lie still in the MRI brain scanner was a brilliant way to explore the workings of their brains.

On the outside, it looks like every other brain scanner — a hollow metal cylinder with a hard, retractable cot.

As the cost of high - resolution brain scanners dropped over the course of the 8 to 10 years, universities snapped them up for research.

Unless, of course, you put them in a high - end brain scanner and ask them to imagine playing tennis.

It's been analyzed with sophisticated brain scanners in hundreds of research studies.

And then all you do is go through this emotional set of reactions, which are studied in brain scanners.

The team also used fMRI brain scanners to look at the brain activity of the men as they viewed photos of their kids.

Seeking answers, researchers have examined rodent brains and placed women into brain scanners to measure the women's responses to pictures or videos of babies smiling, babbling or crying.

Neuroscientist Ryan D'Arcy D'Arcy is hoping to convert his Halifax Concussion Scanner into a portable diagnostic brain scanner for hockey rinks and hospitals.

The Bhutan Epilepsy Project plans to use a portable brain scanner developed by Jacob Eg Larsen and Arkadiusz Stopczynski at the Technical University of Denmark, near Copenhagen.

London, UK (Scicasts)-- Researchers has developed a new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned.

Like the others who lack the hormone, the teens began taking replacement injections, so Farooqi, along with brain scanner Paul Fletcher and other Addenbrooke's colleagues, took advantage.

Among its five new scanners, CUBRIC boasts Europe's most powerful microstructural brain scanner, the Siemens 3 Tesla Connectome magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a specially adapted MRI scanner of which there is only one other in the world, located at Harvard University in the United States.

Conventional brain scanners have up to 32 RF coils, but the Connectome scanner brandishes 64, overlapping around the entire head, as a way to detect more signals at once, speeding up the time and improving the quality of a brain scan.

So the team trained 11 dogs to lie motionless in a functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scanner, while wearing headphones to deliver the sounds and protect their ears.

But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.

There are other noninvasive brain scanners — magnetoencephalography, positron - emission tomography and near - infrared spectroscopy, and so on — but each also has its trade - offs.

New Brain Scanner Lets You Move Around «In Bob Arctor's living room his thousand dollar custom - quality cephscope crafted by Altec...»

In addition to the Oculus Rift, there was not - quite - a-game Relax Harder, where two people wore brain scanners with the goal of being the most zen - like as the developers took opportunities to yell at them to break their concentration.

First, the role of mind mapping in a wide range of disorders has been studied using state - of - the - art MRI, fMRI, and PET brain scanners, from autism and schizophrenia to alcoholism and depression.

In a series of experiments, neuroscientists used fMRI brain scanners to monitor electrical impulses moving back and forth between two specified regions of the brain.

More recently, we showed that when we place people in brain scanners and ask them to do nothing, their brains are spontaneously activated in a highly organized manner during this resting state, which we later called a default mode of brain function.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Now, rather than focusing on the potential end results of lying, Temple University scientists Scott Faro and Feroze Mohamed are developing a way to detect deception by looking directly at people's brain activity using MRI brain scanners.

They trained the dogs to lie motionless inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scanner for seven minutes and then the researchers played recordings of the dogs» trainer.

jholo can do anything... next is retina scanner then after with brain scanner & brain mapping and next year jholo will become TRANSFORMER, can convert itself in to anything depending upon size & need..

It wasn't there, and suddenly the brain scanner lit up.

A neuroscientist and a musician explain how they built the Brain Stethoscope, which is both brain scanner and musical instrument

Then they looked at angry or neutral faces while lying inside a brain scanner.

They set up both inside a brain scanner.

Michael Valenzuela at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues, used a brain scanner to look at the heads of 11 dogs that had recently been euthanised, and two live ones.

In a typical experiment, a volunteer lies in an fMRI brain scanner, which can measure the amount of oxygen used in different parts of the brain.

Neurocinematics is a term coined by Uri Hasson at Princeton University, who was among the first to investigate how the brain responds to movies using an fMRI brain scanner.

She placed herself in an fMRI brain scanner and noted her neural response when she spoke about a vivid memory (two boys fighting over her at her high school prom).

By performing these actions with people placed inside a brain scanner, she has helped to demonstrate that guiding the gazes of others activates different brain areas than following.

From incredible memories, to exceptional mathematical or musical ability, a deep - brain scanner could reveal what's going on inside savants» heads

To study empathy, the researchers recruited 66 adults to sit in a brain scanner while listening to 24 true short stories of human distress.

THE idea of putting a dead salmon in a brain scanner would be funny if it were not so serious.

When fMRI brain scanners were invented in the early 1990s, scientists and the general public were seduced by the idea of watching the brain at work.

«When we're putting people in a brain scanner — particularly an MRI scanner, which is quite noisy, quite confined, quite claustrophobic — it's important to know that people are going to be able to tolerate that environment,» Carhart - Harris notes.

In a study reported in the June 2016 issue of Cerebral Cortex, Heini Saarimäki of Aalto University in Finland and her colleagues observed volunteers in a brain scanner who were being prompted to recall memories they associated with words drawn from six emotional categories or to reflect on a movie clip selected to provoke certain emotions.

A girl lies inside a simulator of a brain scanner at The Child Mind Institute, to practice for the real thing.

In 2001 a group led by neuroscientist Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered that this network was more active when people were simply sitting idly in a brain scanner than when they were asked to perform a particular task.

After placing test subjects in a brain scanner, Moulton showed them images they had never seen before.