Sentences with phrase «brainwaves in»

I wrote about my frenetic brainwaves in a blog a while back, called «Brain Jam».

Choosing an action that is counter to habit takes specific brain activity (detected as brainwaves in blue) but it can be done.

To track how brainwaves change during learning, Ann Graybiel and Mark Howe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used electrodes to analyse brainwaves in the ventromedial striatum of rats that were being taught to navigate a maze.

Measurements of such brainwaves in EEGs provide powerful insight into brain function and a valuable diagnostic tool for doctors.

Not exact matches

The Dreem headband is an active wearable that uses non-invasive sound stimulation to influence our brainwaves to remain in a precious deep sleep for longer.

Higher Levels of Creativity — Alpha brainwave levels are found to be much higher in artists, musicians and creative thinkers.

About InteraXon InteraXon (www.interaxon.ca) specializes in designing and creating brainwave - controlled products and experiences.

I then hopped in the shower and had a brainwave!

IN 2012, as a young medical doctor, Dr. Dayo Olakulehin had a brainwave.

These brainwaves are the most reliable and sensitive marker of stage two sleep — approximately 50 percent of total sleep consists of this stage — and the subjects remained awake twice as long after the phone transmitting in talk mode was shut off.

Cell phones in talk mode seem to be particularly well - tuned to frequencies that affect brainwave activity.

What's more, in the noisy environment, the musicians» brainwaves were more similar to the sound waves of the speech than in non-musicians (The Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.3256 - 09.2009).

«By electrically boosting these nighttime brainwaves, we hope to restore some degree of healthy deep sleep in the elderly and those with dementia, and in doing so, salvage aspects of their learning and memory,» Walker said.

Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.

In other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain - scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they dIn other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain - scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they din illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain - scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they do.

Alpha waves increase in power when a person shifts his or her consciousness of the external world to internal thoughts; they also are the key brainwave signatures of sleep.

But scientists can do more with brainwaves than just listen in on the brain at work - they can selectively control brain function by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Although a cell phone is much less powerful than TMS, the question still remains: Could the electrical signals coming from a phone affect certain brainwaves operating in resonance with cell phone transmission frequencies?

More important, said Charyton, brainwave activity in people with epilepsy tended to synchronize more with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, than in people without epilepsy.

It lies in going back to the source of the body's stress responses, with evaluation of brainwave asymmetry between the left and right sides of the brain's temporal lobe.

For the one minute segment recorded with eyes closed, brainwaves were analyzed to identify asymmetries in electrical amplitudes at the higher frequencies.

The researchers recorded brainwave patterns while patients listened to 10 minutes of silence, followed by either Mozart's Sonata in D Major, Andante Movement II (K448) or John Coltrane's rendition of My Favorite Things, a second 10 - minute period of silence, the other of the two musical pieces and finally a third 10 - minute period of silence.

The sensors measured brainwaves that indicated the whale did reduce its hearing sensitivity in expectation of a clamor.

The researchers found significantly higher levels of brainwave activity in participants when they were listening to music.

More importantly, brainwave activity in people with epilepsy tended to synchronize more with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, than in people without epilepsy.

For my own short film, Many Worlds, algorithms use brainwaves, muscle tension, perspiration and heart rate in a selection of the audience to adjust the story in real time, choosing the most appropriate of the film's four narratives to maximise intensity.

Imagine you are sitting on your sofa watching a TV show on a TV or Xbox that is connected to a Kinect sensor, perhaps while you are wearing headphones with a built - in brainwave scanner.

The team examined the brainwave patterns of 36 infants (17 in the first experiment and 19 in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which measures patterns of brain electrical activity via electrodes in a skull cap worn by the participants.

Andrea Bonarini and colleagues at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy are working on a headset controller that adds data from sensors monitoring heart rate and galvanic skin response to the brainwave data available from devices already on the market.

Previous studies have shown that when two adults are talking to each other, communication is more successful if their brainwaves are in synchrony.

«There are only small light sources when your brainwaves are not in sync, and when your brainwaves are perfectly in sync, the dome fills up with light,» Dikker says.

Seated and wearing an EEG cap to read his brainwaves, the participant trained to control an avatar in a virtual reality environment.

In neurofeedback, as the patient increases alpha brainwaves on the right (calming the right cortex) and decreases them on the left (upping activity in the left cortex), he is rewarded with the sound of a flute playing at an ever higher pitcIn neurofeedback, as the patient increases alpha brainwaves on the right (calming the right cortex) and decreases them on the left (upping activity in the left cortex), he is rewarded with the sound of a flute playing at an ever higher pitcin the left cortex), he is rewarded with the sound of a flute playing at an ever higher pitch.

But after one hour - long talk describing some of his work in human - centered computing, such as flying drones with brainwaves, their teachers report a turn - around in their perceptions, Gilbert said.

A chip can be implanted in the brain to pick up electrical activity or electrodes can be placed on the scalp to pick up brainwaves.

The thought generates electrical activity in the nerve cells and also brainwaves.

In the current study, Tübingen psychologists worked in cooperation with researchers from the Bamberg, Bayreuth and Budapest to compare neurofeedback training, sham neurofeedback (placebo) training in which the participants did not have their own brainwaves fed back to them, and a CBT group program, in which, among other things, specific strategies for planning actions, improved time management and stress mitigation techniques were practiceIn the current study, Tübingen psychologists worked in cooperation with researchers from the Bamberg, Bayreuth and Budapest to compare neurofeedback training, sham neurofeedback (placebo) training in which the participants did not have their own brainwaves fed back to them, and a CBT group program, in which, among other things, specific strategies for planning actions, improved time management and stress mitigation techniques were practicein cooperation with researchers from the Bamberg, Bayreuth and Budapest to compare neurofeedback training, sham neurofeedback (placebo) training in which the participants did not have their own brainwaves fed back to them, and a CBT group program, in which, among other things, specific strategies for planning actions, improved time management and stress mitigation techniques were practicein which the participants did not have their own brainwaves fed back to them, and a CBT group program, in which, among other things, specific strategies for planning actions, improved time management and stress mitigation techniques were practicein which, among other things, specific strategies for planning actions, improved time management and stress mitigation techniques were practiced.

In the May 8 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers show that the level of theta brainwave activity in the prefrontal cortex predicts whether people will be able to overcome these ingrained biases when doing so is required to achieve a goaIn the May 8 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers show that the level of theta brainwave activity in the prefrontal cortex predicts whether people will be able to overcome these ingrained biases when doing so is required to achieve a goain the prefrontal cortex predicts whether people will be able to overcome these ingrained biases when doing so is required to achieve a goal.

The study, by researchers with the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Haifa, also found that the more empathy a comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall into sync.

«Theta brainwaves reflect ability to beat built - in bias.»

While the subjects were playing the game, the experimenters also measured theta brainwave activity in each subject's prefrontal cortex — for instance at the exact moment they saw the distinct symbols of the tasks.

The field already understood what area in mammal brains is important (the perirhinal cortex or PER), but the literature only contained hints that the PER might work based on brainwave patterns there.

A new study finds that theta brainwave activity in the prefrontal cortex predicts how well people can overcome these biases when a better choice are available.

This research by a guy named Marcus Raichle at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, the reason why he start [ed] to look at it was he began to wonder [whether]-- all this brain wave activity when we look at, when scientists look at brainwave activity, they typically strip out what you and I would call noise.

The answers are written in your brainwaves.

The brainwaves, known as theta waves, are the same ones associated with meditation in humans.

In this way, they were able to use pulses of light on mice to stimulate theta - brainwave - like activity around the anterior cingulate cortex.

Thus, the rhythms of the brainwaves corresponding to the speaker and the listener adjust according to the physical properties of the sound of the verbal messages expressed in a conversation.

Through electroencephalography (EEG)-- a non-invasive procedure that analyses electrical activity in the brain — the scientists measured the movement of their brainwaves simultaneously and confirmed that their oscillations took place at the same time.

The rhythms of brainwaves between two people taking part in a conversation begin to match each other.