Sentences with phrase «brain wave responses»

This is done by placing electrodes on the head and recording brain wave responses.

What the study's authors discovered was each person's brain wave responses to the visual stimuli were unique enough to identify them by — very much like fingerprints or DNA.

Not exact matches

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

We use the electromyrograph (EMG) to measure muscle tension and the galvanic skin response indicator (GSR)-- almost a sort of lie detector — to chart emotional swings, and other instruments to measure brain waves (electroencephalograph — EEC) and body temperature.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

The fun responses were always the off - the - wall «the CIA is stealing my brain waves,» variety.

The cause, at a neurological level, is hyperconnectivity between two brain regions, the orbitofrontal cortex and the caudate nucleus, creating a tidal wave of unfounded mortal fear and triggering habitual response as the only way to attain calm.

Mamelak and Rutishauser found that if a neuron's response to an image synchronizes with a type of brain wave called a theta rhythm, the person is much more likely to remember what was shown.

Interestingly, the differences in the music students» brain waves in response to sounds as described above occurred after two years but not at one year, which showed that these programs can not be used as quick fixes, Kraus said.

Stimulation of gamma waves reduced levels of amyloid - β, decreased phosphorylation of tau, and led the brain's immune cells — microglia — to perform their usual housekeeping role, clearing away cellular debris, including amyloid - β (as opposed mounting an inflammatory response as microglia do in Alzheimer's disease, Tanzi explained).

This relaxation response is the secret sauce to yoga nidra because it balances the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems — the left and right brain — allowing you to unwind into various, beneficial brain wave states.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.