Sentences with phrase «brain scanners»

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.

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.

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

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

Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

They set up both inside a brain scanner.

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.

Robert Lee Hotz, a science writer for the The Wall Street Journal said MacKinnon's story «lights up with the joy of great reporting and ambitious enterprise: Who else would put the world's most adventurous free climber into a brain scanner to probe the neural circuits that make most of us shudder, squirm and squeal with panic?»

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

As the study was conducted in a brain scanner at the LIFE&BRAIN Center in Bonn, researchers could also show that products labeled with this emblem led to increased activity in specific brain regions: For example, they observed increased activation in regions important for reward processing as well as frontal regions that process abstract product attributes (e.g. whether or not a product carries a Fair Trade logo, and the meaning of such a label).

Although this research didn't look specifically at sleepwalkers, it tallies with a previous study by Claudio Bassetti at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, who once managed to manoeuvre a sleepwalker into a brain scanner during a sleepwalking episode.

In the brain scanner, using video glasses, the test subjects viewed photos, for example of human faces.

Outside the brain scanner, the subjects were asked to quickly categorize the gender, race, and emotion of the faces using the mouse - tracking technique.

All of the experiments were performed in the brain scanner at the Life & Brain Center at the University of Bonn.

Unprecedented in the setup was that the test subjects freely viewed a feature - length, 105 - minute film in its entirety in the brain scanner.

Brain Scanner is Simon Oxenham's weekly column that sifts the pseudoscience from the neuroscience

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

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

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

She had volunteers lie still in a brain scanner and read Austen.

«While sitting in the brain scanner, the babies listened to a series of music and speech sounds, each played out in a rhythm that was occasionally disrupted,» Zhao said.

The major difference between the original and this remake is that the students actually use a brain scanner as they allow their classmates to kill them off one at a time — obviously with the expectation of being revived in a few minutes before significant brain damage starts.

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..

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This lit up key areas of the brain on the fMRI scanner.

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

Eyes are nothing more than a medium, such as a scanner, a medium for a processor to recognize matter already programmed in data base, in human case, the brain.