Sentences with phrase «brain waves in»

It was discovered that learning how to play sounds with a musical instrument changes brain waves in a manner that an individual's hearing and listening skills are improved over a short space of time.

Conversely, de-synchronizing or disrupting the timing of the brain waves in these regions impaired participants» ability to learn and control their behavior, an effect that Reinhart could quickly fix by changing how he delivered the electrical stimulation.

The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests.

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.

I concentrated as hard as I could to keep my brain waves in the zone.

Previous studies have shown that when a typically developing 20 - month - old child hears a word that she doesn't know, a characteristic uptick in brain waves in the left hemisphere of the brain can be detected through electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive method of measuring the brain's electrical activity.

He has measured brain waves in sleeping fruit flies, identified genes that are active in humans during sleep, and demonstrated that sleep enhances learning and memory.

It is now clear that the majority — perhaps the vast majority — of neuroscience findings are as spurious as brain waves in a dead fish (see «Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty «-RRB-.

Psychologist Sid Kouider of the Laboratory of Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, together with Dehaene and other French and Danish researchers, undertook the difficult task of measuring brain waves in 80 infants.

This, along with changes in brain waves in visual regions and an increased blood flow in that area, correlated with reports of hallucinations.

For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

Not exact matches

«About a half - hour in there you go to a very interesting state in terms of brain waves.

After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

The EEG promptly reads these electrical waves and relates them to memory, emotions and attention according to the activity in specific areas of the brain.

And some insist accurate brain - wave measurement is an iffy prospect in an affordable device, so the technique could be glitch ridden for all but the most basic interactions.

Emotiv Systems, a start - up in San Francisco, plans to introduce its brain - wave - reading headset at the end of this year.

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.

According to Merry, a lot of research shows that there are implications for kids who have ADHD that can be observed directly in these brain waves.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

Gamers weren't going to wear a gooey bathing cap, so the team came up with a rigid, relatively unobtrusive, even cool - looking headset able to get an accurate brain - wave reading with 16 gel - free sensors instead of the 128 sticky ones in a standard EEG cap.

Giving your employees time away from drilling down into email, communicating in meetings or marathon - ing through a project — the activities associated with beta and gamma brain waves — allows them the mental energy to individually brainstorm, internalize information and devise some of their best action plans.

Long story short — there are voltage levels that exist in the human body, between cardiac rhythms, nerve conduction and brain waves.

and hey have people thought that our brain receives information conveyed in energy waves that is transformed into images, sounds and sensations or feelings!.

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.

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.

Brain wave activity is both spatial and temporal in nature, and though not directly sensible it is externally detectable by instruments developed and used in physiological psychology.

(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.

Brain - wave biofeedback training involving learning to increase one's alpha waves (associated with a relaxed, tranquil feeling state) has been used with some success in treating neuroses, psychoses, and behavior problems.

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.

The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

However, there are many other brain wave frequencies that are not picked up in ordinary EEC recordings.

According to the theory, the form of relatedness that characterizes unified, purposive functioning in human beings and lower animals should be manifested in their brain waves — perhaps in some kind of harmony that appears in the brain wave pattern.

Although the work is done in the context of a more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how brain waves might play a role in normal brain function.

An animal's brain waves can be directly manipulated by placing it in an electromagnetic field and modulating the electromagnetic waves within the range of the brain's natural rhythms.

The straightforward experimental implication is that the correlation between brain wave patterns and neural impulse patterns should be lower when a person is engaged in creative thought than when engaged in routine activity like adding numbers.14

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A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

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.

Force causes concussions; Concussions are strongly correlated with degenerative brain diseases like CTE; CTE and other associated long - term neurological disasters are the chief reason youth participation in football has been down or flat recently, and also the thing driving the current wave of lawsuits and legal drama surrounding the NFL and other leagues.

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

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

Additionally there is data to suggest that children who have gone through the STAR Center occupational therapy program demonstrate brain wave activity that appears to look more like that seen in typically developing children.

That's in part because night sleep involves longer periods of deep, slow - wave slumber, and «you need to have an adequate amount of slow - wave sleep for brain restoration to happen,» explains Mark Mahone, a child neuropsychologist at the Johns Hopkins — affiliated Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Studies have shown that at 4 - months there are dramatic changes in your baby's brain waves and a significant increase in his head circumference!

In Labour, key binding decisions were crafted by consenting comrades in compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensuIn Labour, key binding decisions were crafted by consenting comrades in compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensuin compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensuin flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensuin the syrup sea of consensus.

Hitler's ascent to power took place thanks to this wave of emotional frustration over Germany's position in the world.The advent of neuroscience has slowly revealed new potential avenues to understand and decrypt the mysteries of the human brain, which is the seat of our emotions and our morality.

Dr. Brandon Porter is accused of having run a study in which women were shown video clips — some of them violent — while their brain waves were recorded and facial expressions videotaped.

Punctuating REM are interludes of slow - wave sleep, a state in which brain activity ebbs and the waves become more synchronized.

During REM sleep, the brain generates high - frequency waves of electrical activity and the eyes flicker; in humans, REM is closely linked to dreaming.