Sentences with phrase «brain science studies»

As for research, Mokris pointed to brain science studies that have shown that repetition helps build synapses in the brain.

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The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

She has spent years studying the science (research, studies, physiology, etc.) of how body language tells the story of what is going on inside someone's brain.

«Listening to music and singing together has been shown in several studies to directly impact neuro - chemicals in the brain, many of which play a role in closeness and connection,» explains a recent Greater Good Science Center round - up of research on the subject.

In many of the 374 brain science papers, the reviewers found the subjects knew what was being studied.

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

So his team at IBM's Healthcare and Life Science division began studying chess players to see if they could find a correlation between their brain activity and their proficiency.

If you want to bring science into it there appears to be a neurological brain study about it: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/97 Generally speaking, at this time I'm not sure how much stock I put into the results of these various neurological studies since while they seem to show brain activity under certain controlled situations, I don't necessarily find the situations conducive to what I consider proof.

Although he lives in a world of common sense, he knows that nuclear science, space exploration, and studies in neurology and brain chemistry are changing the picture of the world.

Following his retirement from the NFL in 2010, Morey, a Brown graduate, studied the science behind brain injuries in football.

Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.

As I've studied attachment and childrearing theory and the science of how brains work, I've been able to apply that knowledge and let it help me parent more the way I want: lovingly, intentionally, and effectively.»

Toddler talk: The «word spurt,» when a toddler's vocabulary seems to explode overnight, is not the result of special brain mechanisms clicking, as scientists have assumed, but rather a snowball effect that results from continuous, cumulative learning, says a study published in the journal Science.

The study's co-author Rebecca Treiman, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, explained that the study showed that children actually display knowledge about the formulas of written language, such as which letters are usually grouped together before they learn what those letters actually represent.

«The science is in its infancy,» says Gordon Shaw, a physics professor and neuroscientist who studies music and brain development at the University of California at Irvine.

Supported by the Government of Canada through Grand Challenges Canada's «Saving Brains» program, as well as Colombia's Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), the study is published today in the journal Pediatrics.

Attachment Parenting International (API) analyzes and disseminates the work of researchers in psychology, child development, and brain science who have studied and applied the behaviors and outcomes of attachment theory for more than 60 years.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

A study published in 2003 in the journal Science laid the foundation for the theory that social pain — resulting from rejection, isolation or loss — piggybacks on the brain systems used to represent physical pain.

More than a decade later, the study of emotions is a major field in brain science.

In a study published in June in Psychological Science, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common brain - activation patterns and that these patterns are everyday neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract sScience, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common brain - activation patterns and that these patterns are everyday neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract sciencescience.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

The studies were presented at Neuroscience 2017, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

And with that, the brain that launched the modern study of memory in the 1950's will make its final, crucial contribution to science.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

In a «proof - of - principle» study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers described how this brain - computer interface (BCI) produced a 36 % improvement in motor function of a stroke - damaged hand.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

The results of this study not only advance science's understanding of the links between genes, the brain and behavior, but may lead to new insight into such disorders as autism, Down syndrome and schizophrenia.

All images courtesy of Oregon Brain Aging Study, Portland VAMC and Oregon Health & Science University

«Looking at the data from this unique vantage point enables us to study gene patterning that we all share,» says Mike Hawrylycz, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

«We have a pretty limited understanding of how the auditory brain develops in preterm infants,» said University of Illinois speech and hearing science professor Brian Monson, who led the study.

A study published September 2 in Science suggested that dog brains comprehend speech in a similar way to human brains.

Neuromania: On the Limits of Brain Science (Oxford University Press, 2011) debunks the budding idea that a study or news report accompanied by a colorful brain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technoBrain Science (Oxford University Press, 2011) debunks the budding idea that a study or news report accompanied by a colorful brain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technobrain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technology.

Nevertheless,» [the] study is very important because it demonstrates for the first time that we can use gene therapy to transform cells in the brain into ones that will secrete GDNF,» says Jeffrey Kordower, a professor of neurological sciences at Rush Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago.

Lumosity A cleanly constructed site that is serious about representing the science of brain games, referencing studies and neuroscientists who support this approach to brain fitness.

We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the sbrain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the sBrain Research, and the senior author of the study.

Science ultimately published the paper later that year, and it was replicated a few years later in the first - ever brain imaging study of psychopathy, a collaboration between Hare and the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center substance abuse clinic.

In the new study, which was published in Science, neuroscientists first used brain imaging to identify the associative memory network of 16 young, healthy participants.

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what is called the mirror system help people make sense of the actions they see other people perform in everyday life.

A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), with Alain Marty, Professor at Université Paris Descartes, uncovers that a single docking site may use a single cluster of calcium channels and that both the number of docking sites and the number of calcium clusters change in parallel with brain age.

This story appears in the March 3, 2018 issue of Science News with the headline, «Brain - making 101: Self - assembling clumps bring a dose of 3 - D reality to studies of human organs.»

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

In a new study published in Science, the laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampus.

Because the results represent just one sleep cycle, however, it is unclear whether the left side of the brain is always tasked with maintaining attentiveness, explains the study's senior author Yuka Sasaki, a cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences researcher at Brown.

The study subsidised by the science fund FWF was conducted by the Dutch Institute for Neurosciences in Amsterdam in the context of a cooperation project between various clinics and centres of the MedUni Vienna and the brain researcher Dick F. Swaab.

Headline: Old Brains Can Learn New Tricks: Study Shows Older People Use Different Areas Of The Brain To Perform Same «Thinking Task» As Young Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991021094811.htm Source: Science Daily / University of Toronto

University of Illinois speech and hearing science professor Fatima Husain, who led the study, said previous studies showed that tinnitus is associated with increased stress, anxiety, irritability and depression, all of which are affiliated with the brain's emotional processing systems.