Sentences with phrase «brain uses information»

Building on the temporal precision of the MEG technique, we show that machine - decoding algorithms capture patterns of neuronal activity that follow the decision and, hence, do not reveal how our brain uses information contained in these patterns.

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Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

«Time» / «mass» / «color» all these things are bits of informations in our brain, we use to make sense of what is happening around us.

Many times when we use intuition (our gut), our brains are simply processing information in a manner that we can't put into words.

The left brain processes nonverbal information as well as verbal; the right brain uses verbal strategies as well as nonverbal strategies.

It activates enzymes responsible for the production of neurotransmitters — chemicals your brain cells use to relay information.

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

If nurtured, the brain develops all - important «executive function skills,» which include the ability to focus, filter distractions, self - regulate, plan ahead, adjust to changes, control impulsivity, resist temptation, delay gratification, and remember, organize and use information.

It's also good for their brain development as this helps them store important language information for future use.

Kids love to learn by engaging all of their senses (which is also why I have a slight obsession with sensory play), by touching objects and using gross motor skills while acquiring information, their little brains are just firing like crazy.

This book is amazing, you can use the information it has for any age group because it basically teaches you (in incredibly easy to understand language) how the brain works and how it gets wired that way.

The brain is processing the things the baby saw and learned that day, and storing away information for future use.

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When former President Barack Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White HBRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White Hbrain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White House.

Think of it, if your brain is used to constant tickling of incoming information, it will scramble around looking for more entertainment refusing to stay focused on one task.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

The experiment also showed that mouse brains are flexible enough to receive and make use of the additional wavelength information.

He then uses that information to understand individual differences in brain electrophysiology and cognition.

But the real challenge is figuring out how to send that information back to the brain using living residual neural pathways to replace those that have been damaged or destroyed by trauma.

Alfano states «Resonant Raman using the laser pointer 532 nm has become an e?cient tool for investigating molecular components in tissues and cells, providing more detailed information and a way to detect diseases like skin cancer, brain cancer, or atherosclerosis — in mere seconds.»

«If we could show the link by determining how DHA gets into the brain, then we could use this information to more effectively target its absorption and formulate an improved nutritional agent.»

Using a high - resolution analysis of how individual neurons and their connected brain networks processed this touch information, designed by neurocomputational scientist Alberto Mazzoni and physics scientist Anton Spanne, the groups got an unexpected insight into the brain representations of the external world experienced through touch.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tbrain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tBrain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tbrain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.

Quiroga has begun testing this idea using improved techniques to extract more information from brain electrodes.

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.

The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.

Since the cerebellum pulls together disparate sources of information from all over the brain and uses it to control motor functions such as hand gestures and walking, it may simply have had to grow once the rest of the ape brain ballooned.

They have also used state - of - the - art information about brain development to accurately pinpoint new genes and biological pathways implicated in this disorder.

By using tracer chemicals in experiments with live garden warblers, the researchers followed a circuit of neurons from the cryptochrome molecules to the «cluster N» area of the brain, which is active during navigation, showing for the first time that cluster N uses information from the retina.

Contreras - Vidal and researchers with his lab use non-invasive brain monitoring to determine what parts of the brain are involved in an activity, using that information to create an algorithm, or a brain - machine interface, which can translate the subject's intentions into action.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that this information existed 500 years ago; the fact that the brain actually uses it was discovered by Victorian physicist Charles Wheatstone.

Once they are in place, Grunwald will record brain signals in real time during seizures and use the information to try to identify the epileptogenic tissue.

Glezer says that this suggests that in this region of the brain all that is used is the visual information of a word and not the sounds.

«The brain may use every possible means of carrying information,» Rose says.

This research also could lead to work that will identify how somatosensory information is coded, which could be used to incorporate sensory information into brain - machine interfaces.

Their technique demonstrates some of the advances possible through deep learning — a form of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to mimic the way the brain makes connections between pieces of information.

The hybrid there is to connect the brain, spinal cord and existing nerve endings of an amputated limb and use all that information to guide a robot system.

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical activity called gamma waves, report neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Andrew King, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who led the study, explains: «Our results show that, with experience, the brain is able to shift the strategy it uses to localise sounds depending on the information that is available at the time.

«All too often, in fact, data from the brain are analysed using linear methods, but the brain is a complex system that produce signals that are non-linear and dynamic in nature and analysing with these linear methods results in loss of information.»

But when hearing is restored, the brain returns to using information from both ears to work out where sounds are coming from.»

Cognition refers to brain functions relating to receiving, storing, processing and using information.

A team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise spanning biotechnology, information technology, and medicine have used a combination of several «omics technologies to map proteins down to the single cell level, showing both proteins restricted to certain tissues — such as the brain, heart, or liver — and those present in all tissues.

Each person's brain was then imaged using MRI, and the team combined this information to get a clearer picture of the neural response to the tapping.

Artificial intelligence, which emulates the information processing function of the brain that can quickly execute complex and complicated tasks such as image recognition and weather prediction, has attracted growing attention and has already been partly put to practical use.

«The OFC appears to carry a lot of varied information,» he notes, and although the activity that Redish and colleagues detected is intriguing, «discovering whether and how the animal uses each kind of information in other parts of the brain is still very much an ongoing task in the field.»