Sentences with phrase «brains of all kinds of animals»

Rebecca Saxe: Through most of the short history of neuroscience, what we've been able to study are the kinds of things that brains in general do — the things that brains of all kinds of animals can do.

Not exact matches

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.

Arnold Kriegstein, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, also argues that though the scientists found inhibitory interneurons strikingly depleted in the brains of the oxygen - deprived piglets, this alone can not account for the dramatic shrinking of the animals» overall brain size and the diminished number of cortical folds «The interneurons are part of the story but not the entire story of how the brain is affected by this kind of [lack of oxygen].»

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

«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.»

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

Because the molecule must be injected into the brain, this kind of chemical - based fMRI won't be applied to humans anytime soon, says Jasanoff, but it could be used to probe addiction and disease using animals.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

In various talks, interviews and articles, he suggested that a mathematical brain model would deliver such fundamental breakthroughs as simulation - driven drug discovery, the replacement of certain kinds of animal experiments and a better understanding of disorders such as Alzheimer's.

A press conference in Washington, D.C. in April provided the setting for an announcement by the Human - Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation about a first - of - its - kind controlled scientific study that Dr. O'Haire is leading to measure the effects of service dogs on post 9 - 11 war veterans with PTSD and / or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Dogs and cats can sustain injuries to the brain when they are hit by a car, attacked and bitten around the head by a larger animal or shaken by a larger animal or when they fall from a height, receive a gunshot wound or suffer blunt force trauma of some kind.

But the reality is that we are using our excess brain capacity to take the worst aspects of animal behavior and amplify it beyond precedence: greed, destruction, warfare against our own kind as well as other species.