Sentences with phrase «brain waves as»

Summary: This article reports on an experimental study done by Washington State University which studies how children respond in terms of eye movements, pulse, and brain waves as they are taught in a classroom environment.

Bhattacharya monitored their brain waves as they worked themselves into an impasse.

(2) Our second difficulty is that Whitehead's denial of the regional inclusion of small events by large events seems to exclude the possibility that the pattern of brain waves as a whole identifies mind - events that include the subordinate electromagnetic occurrences in the waves themselves.

Now, my problem is whether the pattern of brain waves as a whole could consist of more inclusive occasions including lesser occasions.

Through biofeedback we can see our brain waves as we welcome new wholeness into our lives, bringing the two hemispheres of the brain together as religious mystics have taught us to do in prayer.

At GE's BBQ Research Center, scientists measured attendees» brain waves as they ate brisket.

Visitors could even hook themselves up to an EEG to monitor their brain waves as they ate things like sweet and savory barbecue.

Not exact matches

Tons of people who have objectively bad sleep as measured by surveys, brain waves, and sleep diaries actually don't feel troubled about their sleep at all.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

And dozens of other types of monitors might be wheeled to a patient's hospital bedside to look at things such as brain waves and blood chemistry.

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.

This feedback enables people to learn to control their physiological reactions to mental stimulation — which, as Jodi Lawrence says in her book Alpha Brain Waves, provides «you with instant information concerning your inner state, a kind of electronic mirror to see into your mind.»

We have experimented with the use of EEG in prayer (watching the brain waves to discern a rise in spiritual consciousness), the use of the consensor with prayer groups, and the impact of certain kinds of music as observable with biofeedback machines.

Unlike the brain cells themselves, which are there through thick and thin as supporting environment, those brain wave activities which can be correlated with consciousness are present only when the latter is present and absent when the latter is absent.

Our brain waves are as unique as fingerprints, therefore each person would have their own individual ideas about «belief» and what that means.

It is not clear what the discovery that brain waves change along with emotions such as pity is supposed to demonstrate, but Fehr seems to think it is important.

Brain - wave biofeedback is described by Elmer and Alyce Green as the «yoga of the West» because it helps people learn to change their consciousness to a state of alert quietness that is like that achieved by many meditative techniques.

Biofeedback utilizes various instruments that measure bodily changes such as muscular tension, blood pressure, brain wave frequencies, skin temperature, and heart rate.

However, brain waves are not confined to the brain because the interstitial fluid functions as a conducting medium and it is continuous throughout the body.

As I noted before, each alternative has its own problems, and so this shortcoming of the brain wave model originates in the more general problem of time.

Greenness as a color is brought into being out of light waves by the eyes and brain.

But as I was making pizza (recipe tomorrow), I looked over at the leftover Coffee Cake Muffins and had a brain wave.

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

Other studies show that oxytocin levels, and even brain alpha waves, track between mother and baby in synchronous interactions as well.

Researchers looked at the brain wave patterns of babies as a measure of depression.

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 existing theory of light as waves failed to explain the effect, but Einstein provided a neat solution by suggesting light came in discrete packages of energy called photons — a brain wave that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

Using oscillating brain waves, rather than observing seizures as they happen, Ince locates the seizure onset zone in one hour.

As they slept, researchers recorded their electrical brain - wave activity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

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.

The number of times per second that the atoms shift back and forth defines the wave's frequency, experienced by the human eardrum and brain as pitch.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»

The current increased the activity of normal beta waves, a kind of brain wave that is usually active during sustained muscle activities, such as holding a book.

«As the brain ages, it can not precisely coordinate these two deep - sleep brain waves,» Walker added.

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

Most anesthesiologists monitor their patients using a machine known as a bispectral index monitor, which reads brain waves from electrodes on a patient's scalp and produces a score from 100 to 0.

Instead scientists can gather clues about when we begin to dream by monitoring certain physiological markers while a person is asleep, such as brain waves, muscle tension and eye movements.

The hair cells formed normal bundles (see images) that responded to sound waves and signaled the brain, as measured by electrical recordings.

As the rats were learning the task, their brain activity showed bursts of fast gamma waves.

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By recording neuronal activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves of activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the brain in defined patterns, and that these patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.

Müller uses a computer to track brain waves through a technology known as electroencephalography, or EEG.

Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.

These two types of brain oscillations engage in a neural seesaw: When beta waves are strong, akin to a stereo blasting, gamma waves are weak, as if the volume had been dialed down, and vice versa.

But some vision researchers still dismiss these oscillations as noise, convinced that the activity of single neurons — and not the collective waves that result from that activity — is the key to understanding the brain, Schroeder says.

Shown are brain waves during slow - wave sleep, measured as a study participant slept.

Vyssotski found that when the birds flew over landmarks, such as a familiar highway, high - frequency brain waves suddenly got more intense.

As he learns to control certain brain waves while playing the game, his race car speeds up.

Most researchers interpret this activity as the brain slowly reinforcing synaptic connections that already exist, but Tononi noticed that after each wave, the brain goes completely silent, which never happens when we're awake.