Sentences with phrase «brain scientists»

Brain scientists know sleep improves memory, but why and how has been a tough nut to crack.

What advice can brain scientists give politicians to help get their message across?

This is a useful study for brain scientists because it suggests what specific areas of the brain might contribute to depression in HD.

Most brain scientists will never know what it feels like to live with the mental illnesses they study.

He and his team expected that just a few brain scientists would tune in, but they were wrong.

Brain scientists define learning as a process that will modify a subsequent behavior, and memory as the record left by a learning process.

She is a behavioral and brain scientist at Binghamton University in New York.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

But in the opinion of brain scientists like Eric Kandel, we were born to think and we were born to feel.

Brown University brain scientists didn't just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they'd seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.

For a long time, brain scientists believed that maintaining focus in these situations required a cascade of mental events: momentary distraction, followed by the realization that our attention has been diverted and a conscious effort to bring it back on the task at hand.

A tiny, do - it - yourself microscope — which can be built from instructions posted online — has opened a new universe to brain scientists in at least 200 labs worldwide, and the device has earned its creators at UCLA an $ 8.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

In the future, we'll be able to finally multitask in a way that works, despite what brain scientists say about our brains only focusing on one task.

How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?»

So perhaps small - brained subjects have an aesthetic appreciation that big - brained scientists don't give them credit for.

For the moment, Blue Brain scientists study rodent brain tissue and characterize different types of neurons to excruciating detail, recording their electrical properties, shapes, sizes, and how they connect.

A recent article in the Atlantic, «How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners» is making headlines.

Brain scientists Eric Jonas and Konrad Kording had grown skeptical.

Freud put the unconscious on the throne of the mental kingdom, but the subjectivity problem led brain scientists to ignore the plentiful evidence of unconscious mental processing for nearly a century.

Contemplating beautiful objects puts us in a good mood — or what brain scientists describe as «a state of positive affect.»

In the new study, Brown University brain scientists performed an experiment with 91 volunteers to see what effect reward had on RIF.

In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, Eric R. Kandel, the noted brain scientist, states that painting — from the Renaissance until fairly recently — sought to create the illusion of the three - dimensional world on a two - dimensional canvas.

Brain scientist Professor Thomas Nowotny was surprised to find that the «nose» of fruit flies can identify odours from illicit drugs and explosive substances almost as accurately as wine odour, which the insects are naturally attracted to because it smells like their favourite food, fermenting fruit.

In April 2016, the tool ranked computer scientists, and when its corpus was expanded to neuroscience in November 2016, it was also used to judge the most influential brain scientists.

The research by Brown University brain scientists links a fundamental problem in neuroscience called «credit assignment» — how the brain reinforces learning only in the exact circuits that caused the rewarding choice — to an oft - observed quirk of behavior called «choice bias» — we value the rewards we choose more than equivalent rewards we don't choose.

«Because brain scientists know a lot about the factors that regulate neuronal excitability, including inhibitory neurons, they can now try to use a variety of strategies to dampen neuronal excitation.

Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the brain

This early hint that age - related changes in EP2 action in microglia might be promoting some of the neuropathological features implicated in Alzheimer's was borne out in subsequent experiments for which Andreasson's team used mice genetically predisposed to get the mouse equivalent of Alzheimer's, as well as otherwise normal mice into whose brains the scientists injected either A-beta or a control solution.

He's now at work on a novel about her life as a fanatically dedicated young brain scientist.

When it comes to nature versus nurture, brain scientists think both matter.

Lots, thanks to brain scientists Tim Verstynen & Bradley Voytek (also board members of the, ahem, Zombie Research Society).

But for now, specialists from curriculum designers to brain scientists see game - based learning as a big piece of the educational pie when it comes to math (and other subjects besides).

Paul Atchley is eDriving's award - winning Brain Scientist Advisor.

«Our application of this technology is powerful because it allows us to identify specific neural stem cell defects that are invisible in the cell culture systems typically used by brain scientists.

Brain scientists in Russia have found preliminary evidence that collectivism is associated with a unique...

The Dalai Lama has arranged for Tibetan monks to travel to American universities for brain scans and has spoken at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the world's largest gathering of brain scientists.

Brain Scientists Know Exactly What Causes Phone Addiction.

said many brain scientists.

As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

Facing Reality: Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist.

«Brain scientists have invented, established and patented a method to obtain long - living cell lines derived from fungiform taste papillae of the human tongue.

It does to brain scientists.