Sentences with phrase «brain scanning machines»

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It is no fluke that in the days after Carlisle's report was broadcast, the AFL dished out a spin - laden press release detailing their plans to screen and scan the brains of retired players in their much - vaunted MRI machine.

The researchers fed the data from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based on his or her brain activity.

Using a functional MRI machine, or fMRI, the researchers scanned the brains of 42 people with OCD, ages 18 to 60, before and after four weeks of intensive, daily cognitive behavioral therapy.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

Brain - scanning machines may soon be capable of discerning rudimentary thoughts and separating fact from fiction

Sook - Lei Liew and her colleagues from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, asked eight adults to watch a circle on a screen while an fMRI machine scanned their brain.

One day last year, cognitive scientists Joshua Greene and Fiery Cushman, who designed the study, pulled up a series of brain scans taken as volunteers resolved the dilemma while inside an MRI machine.

Okonkwo scheduled a two - hour brain scan for Tom in a high - powered MRI machine.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

Joshua Greene and colleagues at Princeton University asked people to make a number of decisions while their brains were being scanned by an MRI machine.

Using one of the strongest MRI machines available, with a field strength three to six times that of typical clinical scanners, the researchers produced brain scans that resolved millimeter - scale networks for the first time.

Colorful scans have lulled us into an oversimplified conception of the brain as a modular machine

In a second test, they scanned the brains of participants in an MRI machine while the subjects watched a series of short video clips of unfamiliar faces, famous faces, common objects and navigational scenes, such as a clip of the Earth from outer space; and in a separate task as they recognized specific faces.

CT scans use computers and rotating X-ray machines to create images of slices, or cross-sections, of the brain.

An MRI machine uses magnetic fields to take pictures, or scans, of the brain.

fMRI (for functional magnetic resonance imaging) A special type of scanning machine used to study brain activity.

Phillips and her collaborators scanned the brains of the volunteers using a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine.

brain scan A technique to view structures inside the brain, typically with X-rays or a magnetic resonance imaging (or MRI) machine.

In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, Tali Sharot from the department of experimental psychology at University College London and her colleagues devised a clever study to test people's dishonest tendencies while scanning their brains in an fMRI machine.

MRI scans are a great way to look at the structure of the brain, but they have substantial distortions, that change from machine to machine.

October 15, 2009 — Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California admitted Monday that a mistake in default settings on a CT scanner used to perform brain scans on patients resulted in an increase in the amount of radiation emitted by the machine.

Although the machine was used for other types of scans, it apparently only affected potential stroke victims because the settings were only changed for the brain perfusion scan.

Once they were in the MRI machine, Berns scanned their brains while presenting them with odors of various people, and only one type of smell activated the caudate: the scent of someone they knew.

If you expose men and women lying in brain - scan machines to explicit or subliminal sexy pictures, everybody's brain lights up.