Sentences with phrase «brain shape»

You want to make a giant brain shaped chocolate?

We approach the Anthropocene threat with brains shaped in evolution to survive the previous geological epoch, the Holocene, when dangers were signaled by growls and rustles in the bushes, and it served one well to reflexively abhor spiders and snakes.

If you cast your mind's eye back to our Fig campaign, you may recall some rather attractively made brain shaped charts showing how we were putting together the funding for Psychonauts 2.

Editor's note: This story was updated April 25, 2017, to correct the age range of the fossil hominids referred to in the comparison of brain shape humans, living apes and fossil hominids.

But these data don't directly measure brain shape, making it difficult to untangle precisely how quickly or slowly human brains became as round as they are today, says paleoanthropologist Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich.

Additionally, using leading - edge methods to look at brain shape, the team showed that parts of these structures change more with treatment, providing vital clues to how the connections in the brain may be used to select for patients who will respond well to treatment.

Facial and dental traits of H. sapiens were established by around 300,000 years ago, whereas brain shape has continued to evolve since then, the researchers propose.

Two views of a composite reconstruction of the Homo sapiens fossils are based on tomographic scans of multiple original fossils; they reveal a face that would be nearly identical to that of modern humans, but a less - evolved brain shape.

Without it, the mutant ants were less sociable, were strange in behavior, and had altered brain shapes.

After Microsoft: Nokia's CTO on patent trolls, perfecting wearables, and how lazy brains shape tech

Plagiocephaly or crooked head shape can result from 3 very different etiologic processes including abnormalities in brain shape and subsequent aberrant directions in brain growth, premature fusion of a single coronal or lambdoidal suture, or prenatal or postnatal external constraint.

Roll each half into a 9 inch rope, then zig - zag the rope to make the brain shape.

Furthermore, once I had discovered a brain shape ice cube mold tray (UK — here) I knew we had to create Jelly brains.

SHE»S got three hearts, eyes the size of soccer balls and a brain shaped like a doughnut.

We are beginning to understand how our brains shape our dreams, and why they contain such an eerie mixture of the familiar and the bizarre

We are just rather clever apes with a brain shaped by natural selection to see us through this messy world.

However, similarities in the brain shape between the ancient species and diving birds living today suggest that diving behavior may be associated with certain anatomical structures in the brain.

Working on the joint Australian - Indonesian team that discovered Flores Man, Brown concluded that the brain shape, long arms, and chinless jaw indicate descent from an early hominid.

Next, the brain shape and structure are mapped, including the grooves — called sulci, shown in pink — in the folded cortex.

If correct, it is our brains shape our culture, rather than our culture our brains.

The evolution of modern human brain shape.

Some studies showed that these depressed adults had unusual changes in their brain shape.

How is the brain shaped by sensory experience, and what modifications occur in neuronal circuits that allow us to learn and remember?

We assessed regional brain shape abnormalities and spatial relationships between brain shape and abnormalities observed in the underlying tissue in children and adolescents prenatally exposed to

I didn't realize just how much my brain shaped my decisions until it stopped working altogether.

It was also revealed that brain activity increased in the orbito - frontal cortex, anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex areas, which all play a part in how the brain shapes a pain experience from nerve signals coming from the body.

Centella asiatica — Gotu Kola is the «yogis herb», said to develop the crown chakra and balance the two hemispheres of the brain (see the brain shaped leaf?!).

When you're afraid, your amygdala (a tiny part of the brain shaped like an almond) fires up, so that you can only focus on survival.

Its brain shapes up as a Marvell 64 - bit quad - core processor, and there's 16 GB of internal memory included.