Sentences with phrase «brain scientists see»

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).

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Creativity, Genius and the Brain [October 27, 2015] Scientists often cite Isaac Newton when crediting the work of others who have come before them: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

And with more information on how the brain forms its network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that network is injured or malformed.

Scientists used CRISPR - Cas9 to shed light on why people with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome — a rare human genetic disorder — are more likely to develop brain disorders like autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia (Karun K. Singh, abstract 103.05, see attached summary).

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

So Alkire and other scientists are using neuroimaging to peer into the anesthetized brain to see what happens when it succumbs.

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.

Widely seen as one of the field's rising stars, Mackey is part of a movement to upend the way scientists look at pain, drawing the focus away from the nerves that sense it, towards the brain that processes it.

She also talked to a scientist who has used brain scans to determine that echolocators use areas of the brain normally associated with seeing when they maneuver.

If any of the adult shark pooh - pooh - ers had been having their brains scanned at that moment, scientists would have seen increased activation in the amygdala and insula — two key parts of the brain's limbic system and important inputs to the mesocortical limbic circuit.

She wondered whether the sampling used in brain imaging studies might affect the results scientists were seeing.

«Scientists are excited because this technology allows us to make animal models that we weren't able to see before — for brain diseases, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia,» she says.

When scientists ask people to view one of two images — a portrait or a photograph of a house — or to imagine either a face or a house, they can tell from brain analyses which of the two the person is seeing or imagining.

Scientists have long speculated that the act of seeing things in our mind's eye employs some of the same brain circuits that we use when seeing with our physical eyes.

If the monocytes were indeed acting as a Trojan horse, the scientists would expect to see the parasite breach the blood - brain barrier.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

In these mice, then, the scientists could quite literally see recent experiences that had been written to specific brain cells.

Thus, by monitoring the activity of motion - detecting neurons in animals and simultaneously exploring human motion perception using cunningly contrived displays such as a, b and c, scientists are starting to understand the mechanisms in your brain that are specialized for seeing motion.

As scientists gain the power to see the brain in its full complexity, he argues, they will finally be able to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the mind.

When the scientists looked at the structure of the neurons in the insects» brains and eyes, they saw that while the tissue in very young flies was more or less intact, problems developed quickly.

THE WATERCOLOR EFFECT In this illusion by Italian vision scientist Baingio Pinna, a thin, orange contour adjacent to a darker purple contour casts an orange tint over long distances — as though a watery paint was filling in the gaps between the orange lines [see «Illusory Color and the Brain,» by John S. Werner, Baingio Pinna and Lothar Spillmann; SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, March 2007].

Optogenetics works at micro scale, and fMRI covers wide regions of the brain — together this means that scientists have a way to intervene and experiment with entire brain circuits, to finally see how a certain type of brain cell affects the wider global activity of the entire brain.

With pulses of light in the right part of the brain at the right frequencies, Brown University scientists induced rats to behave as if things they'd seen before were novel and things they'd never seen were old hat.

Blocking arginase using the small drug difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) before the start of symptoms in the mice, the scientists saw fewer CD11c microglia and plaques develop in their brains.

Scientists call this drop, which takes place directly over the left temple, the «left anterior negativity» and see it as a sign the brain is struggling to make sense of a sentence with a scrambled structure.

In the past, scientists have studied the effects of low brain activity in the MD by cutting it out in mice — an extreme measure that didn't accurately mimic the «mild» reduction in activity seen in schizophrenia, says Columbia University psychiatrist Joshua Gordon.

Scientists have been attempting such a feat for years, refining their methods along the way, and the Irvine team finally saw success: the cells were integrated in the brain and caused large - scale rewiring, restoring the high - level plasticity of early development.

«This is the first biological evidence I've seen that cocaine abuse may have an aging effect on the brain,» says social scientist Caryl Beynon of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom.

When the scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan brain activity, they saw that high and low frequency stimulation put the rats in completely different states of activity.

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.

If brain size had anything to do with innovation and creativity, some scientists expected to see a link between the so - called Mind's Big Bang (the emergence of bone tools and cave paintings that occurred between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago) and the emergence of modern - size human brains.

«3 - D axon assemblies pave the way for drug discovery: Scientists report a new microdevice that prepares axon fascicles in the lab like those seen in the brain.»

But these imaging data are represented in completely different formats, and there's no way to switch between the two: once scientists zoom in to the level of single cells, they can not pan out again to see those cells in the context of the whole brain.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- With pulses of light in the right part of the brain at the right frequencies, Brown University scientists induced rats to behave as if things they'd seen before were novel and things they'd never seen were old hat.

Nine weeks after receiving the injections, long after the animal was born, the scientists examined its brain to see where the cells, which they'd labeled with a fluorescent marker, had gone.

UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early - in - life visual experiences — simply trying to see — sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly.

The scientists used a tool called magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to see inside people's brains.

This time, Prothena scientists would also look to see if the antibody entered into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathing the brain and spinal column, although they are not yet able to detect its engagement with AS in the CSF.

The scientists can then turn different neurons in the striatum on and off to see how this alters the animal's behavior, revealing more about which cells do what in the brain.

In laboratory experiments, this brain scientist and her coworkers have seen increased activity in the ventral striatum whenever someone at any age is confronted by a risky decision or the offer of a reward.

Prior to the study, scientists had observed synchronous patterns of electrical activity between the two circuit hubs after a monkey saw an object, but weren't sure if the signals actually represent such short - term visual memories in the brain.

Hopefully, all new studies of therapies in HD will include brain scans, so scientists can see whether this loss of brain tissue is prevented.

Scientists can compare the same brain area when a person is doing nothing, and again when the person is performing a task, to see how blood flow — and activity — in that brain area changes.

When scientists examined the brains of dead sheep, they saw sponge - like holes.

Scientists have actually studied his brain to see if those parts which process fear might be differ from an average person's.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the scientists saw several areas of the brain become active in the average - ability boys while they did the task.

Albeit an unfolded textbook, NG, Time, Economist,... Scientist and most mags are 18 ″... that's how our brains (eye + neural net, see visual integration across saccadic eye movements) read pages: Unfolded, scanning back - forth, diagonal, reverse... and again.

When they see their beloved person, scientists have proven that the «cuddle chemical» oxytocin is produced in their brains.

By using M.R.I. scanners, scientists have now looked directly at dogs» brains to see how they work.

Fallout: New Vegas is really raising the bar for companions, essentially taking Fallout 3 «s awesome furry friend Meat and turning him into an even more awesome cyborg, complete with the see - through brain jar that science - fiction has taught us will one day come standard on all aliens, monsters and maniacal scientists.