Sentences with phrase «by brain processes»

Even William James, who thought that our thoughts are explained by brain processes, said that no material thing can grasp itself, as the mind does when it thinks of itself.

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Gazzaley and Rosen say some activities may boost cognition and attention by stimulating the brain's ability to strengthen and reorganize existing neural connections, a process called neuroplasticity.

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

Remotely, Delphi engineers will monitor data processed by the car's multi-domain controller, a sort of black box that acts as the car's brain.

Simply put, it gives the brain what one neuroscientist calls «greater bandwidth,» boosting the processing capacity of the affected brain cells by 3,000 %.

These foods, he writes, stimulate the brain's opioids, also known as endorphins, a process similar to the one incited by morphine and heroin.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

I think that knowing what we do about what often happens to the brain as the person begins the final failures common in the dying process, it is likely that Darwin could have been coaxed into denying, by friends, and family, or even just frightened himself.

Here the experience is not guided by anything objective: Unless the dreamer is a prophet, the dreaming happens «inside» his brain without correlating or shadowing anything external to his synaptic processes.

See also: Robert Hanlon and J.W. Brown, «Microgenesis: Historical Review and Current Studies,» Brain Organization of Language and Cognitive Processes, edited by Alfredo Ardila and Feggy Ostrosky (New York: Plenum, 1989) and Cognitive Microgenesis: A Neuropsychological Perspective edited by Robert Hanlon (New York: Springer - Verlag, 1991).

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

No philosopher not thoroughly imbued in process thought will ever believe the process claim that a prolonged series of conscious brain - sized occasions exists but that it could never be detected by perception or instruments.

Its logical terminus is determinism or «epiphenomenalism,» Huxley's notion that the brain and mind are fully determined by - products of irrational physical processes.

«In order to think,» he wrote in 1942, «we must claim for our reasoning a validity which is not credible if our own thought is merely a function of our brain, and our brains a by - product of irrational physical processes.»

Embryonic stem cells are produced during development by the same process of epigenetic programming that later will produce adult cells such as skin and brain.

We can be aware in a general way of the role of our eyes in mediating visual experience, but we have no awareness of the work of the brain or of the process by which its work is translated into our conscious experience.

Rather it does so by altering the physiology of the brain itself, a process beyond the conscious control of the consumer of pornography, and which thus subverts the assumptions of the principle of consent.

I discuss the advantages of the alternative view of process cosmology elsewhere (George Wolf, «The place of the brain in an ocean of feelings,» to be published in a festschrift for Charles Hartshorne edited by John B. Cobb, Jr.).

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

Images and sentences are neither processed by the brain nor evaluated by the intelligence in the same way.

They assume that all information that exists is available to them through their five senses, and is processed by the infallible reasoning function of the brain (usually, their own.

Please let us know what this evidence is, but remember that it has to stand up to OUTSIDE scrutiny by those of us who know just how much the human brain is unable to process subjective phenomena and things of that sort.

In short the process by which matter combines in increasingly complex forms moves firstly towards a material brain that can harmonise with a spiritual soul and once man, a spiritual / material being, has made an appearance, the one unity law of control and direction moves forward toward the Incarnation.

Therefore, your brain is created by chance - random processes... how do you even know if you're asking the right questions then?

: If our thoughts are the mere by - products of the electro - chemical processes in our evolved brains, you would not get «truth» you would get «brain - fizz.»

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

According to Professor Mark Mattson, head of neuroscience at the US National Institute on Ageing: «Suddenly dropping your food intake dramatically — cutting it by at least half for a day or so — triggers protective processes in the brain.»

They also supply a nice burst of energy due to their natural sugar content that will power your brain for hours — instead of leading to the all - too - common sugar crash that is cause by processed, sugary snacks.

It will be a mutation of the soul and the spirit that will span months and years; it will involve enlarging muscle mass and increasing brain power; it will include the hormonal process by which a girl becomes a woman; it will entail the spiritual journey of a gifted amateur into a professional; and, even more burdensome and fascinating, it will require Michelle to publicly assume the role for which she is being cast — the greatest women's golfer ever, a potential savior of her sport.

Your brain does not form memories as a video recorder would just record scenes; they are affected by attentional processes and are consolidated and reconsolidated over time.

Dementia Definition: A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and «impaired reasoning».

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«a disease process in the brain, involving the cortical neurones, brought about by an autointoxication... as a result of a disorder of metabolism.»

They are, in a very literal way, absorbing information raw, unhampered by the processing and reason of a more mature brain.

The connecting process (synapse formation) is rapid during this year, with brain activity becoming closer to adult than newborn by 12 months.

She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

Also called SPD for «sensory processing disorder,» sensory integration disorder refers to a problem with the way incoming sensory stimuli are processed by the brain.

The process is occurring by something called «Fetal Microchimerism» This is when the cells of the baby still continue to live on in Mom's body and brain after baby is born, and it lasts for decades.

By the way our brain has processed the memory of the event, is causes heightened anxiety, hypervigilance, flashbacks, nightmares, etc..

In the above article the words: cellular, hormones, brain and nervous system appear by the second paragraph with absolutely no references to explain how these biological terms or processes relate to birth or birth trauma.

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.

DAWN THOMPSON: By the way that also helps establish breast milk guys, it also helps all those oxytocin, we release all these other things in your brain, we are just messing with the process way too much so every opportunity that we can to get back to the normal natural process of childbirth is important and that includes how we treat the babies when they come out.

It's been a long day, so my brain is working slowly, but what do you mean by emphasising the importance of process in outcome?

In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.

Currently, AI systems do not process the variability and adaptability that is vital, as evidenced by Professor Jianfeng's research, to the human brain for growth and learning.

Over the last decade, neuroscientists have largely come to believe that physical pain and social pain are processed by the brain in the same way.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

The newfound ability to measure sound processing in the brain has led to other important discoveries in neuroeducation by Kraus and her team.

Silent videos that merely imply sound — such as of someone playing a musical instrument — still get processed by auditory regions of the brain.