Sentences with phrase «build big brains»

If high - quality protein was the «nutrient among nutrients,» helping us build our big brains over the last few million years, one would expect that importance to be resoundingly reflected in the composition of human breast milk — especially since infancy is the time of our most rapid growth.

Does teamwork build big brains?

Not exact matches

Hardy's team highlights the following observations to build a case for dietary carbohydrate being essential for the evolution of modern big - brained humans:

«If we are trying to build a [brain - computer interface] decoder we need to take into account the bigger context of what the target of the movement is.»

The big question these researchers are asking now is whether the intricacy of tasks we can perform depends on the complexity of the multi-dimensional «sandcastles» the brain can build.

One of the genes involved in feeding the big brain, called SLC2A1, builds a protein for transporting glucose from blood vessels into cells.

Such a network, akin to the type of big, expensive facilities historically built for physicists and astronomers by governments, was first mooted 3 years ago, when Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York, and five colleagues drafted the proposal for what would ultimately become President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBRAIN) Initiative.

But how do we manage to build such big brains?

Today the big push is in «deep learning» — building artificial intelligence algorithms inspired by the brain's neural connections.

Although the fossil record is incomplete, we have more than enough to see that, in broad terms, our big - brained, long - limbed, built - for - distance - walking species evolved from arboreal ancestors with smaller brains, larger teeth and broader chests.

Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist, calculated how big our brain would be if it were built with thick axons.

They do this by looking at the electrical activity of individual neurons in a live mammal brain to build a bigger picture of its function as a whole organ.

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

«It really highlights that just a small difference in the regulatory regions of human DNA — even ones that don't really make a gene, per se, but help to control genes — can have a big impact on how the brain is built, and ultimately how it functions,» she said.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Like the great sports car racing and Formula 1 cars before them, not to mention the über - classic F1 road car of the 1990s, these new McLarens are rolling embodiments of the central duality — big - brained engineering, craft prowess — of an island nation where the cottage - built, giant - slaying race car is the once and future king.

Our big brains allow us to pursue higher education, maintain careers, and build wealth.

It's a lot of processing power for a speaker, and Apple says it's perhaps the «biggest brain ever» built into a speaker.

It is built on research showing that negativity makes a big impact on the brain, and that unless they take steps to counteract instances of negativity, couples grow apart emotionally.