Sentences with phrase «brain wiring patterns»

The Human Connectome Project, which is an international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale — mostly just the white matter, or active myelinated (insulated) nerve cell bundles — using magnetic resonance imaging, this week announced its finding that brain wiring patterns correlate with behavioral and demographic traits.

Not exact matches

«Our brains are hard - wired to get us into investing trouble; humans are pattern - seeking animals... Our brains are designed to perceive trends even where they might not exist.

That's okay because we are hard wired to find order in chaos, that's why we see patterns where there are none, that's why we fall for optical illusions, our brains want to find order.

When a pattern of response is generalized like this it most likely indicates that the child's brain has now been wired so that the child becomes more hesitant and fearful of various things they are exposed to in their environment.

A baby at the breast is getting their immune system developed, activating their thymus, staying warm, feeling safe from predators, having normal sleep patterns and wiring their brain, and (oh by the way) getting some food in the process.

Tracing how the brain is wired is a great first step but to find out how this linking pattern produces a particular behaviour we need to be able to see how changing these links affects brain function.

The array, called BrainGate, reads a pattern of brain signals and then sends them via wires to an external computer that translates it into a command.

«The architecture of the brain follows a cost efficient wiring pattern that maximizes functionality with minimal energy consumption,» Jann said.

The answer may be that their brains simply don't work the same: Genes, culture, and personal experience have wired their moral circuitry in different patterns.

LA JOLLA, CA — Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a startling feature of early brain development that helps to explain how complex neuron wiring patterns are programmed using just a handful of critical genes.

Patterns are tough to release completely when they are wired in our brain chemistry and energetic body for years, even lifetimes.

We can weave the tested material into stories where we create context and patterns, because our brains are wired for storytelling.

In fact, it's more than a mere ability — the brain is literally wired to look for patterns whenever it can, always seeking to make order out of chaos and boil the world down into simple rules.

This presentation debuts a series of wire Tondos, in which swirling cacophonies of colors are created from the layered mapping of cataclysmic weather patterns superimposed onto brain scans of black youth suffering from PTSD as a result of gun violence.

In a recently published study, Sue, along with neuroscientist Jim Coan and colleagues, demonstrated that not only can couples learn to replace their negative patterns of interaction with positive ones, but that in doing so they change how their brains are wired to depend more on each other, and reduce their negative reactions to stressful situations.