Sentences with phrase «by complex brain»

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Using his brain - spinningly complex algorithm, Silver predicted Obama would take 313 electoral votes and would win the popular vote by a 2.5 % margin.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

However, it is difficult to conceive how the complex unity and integration of parts of a past experience can be mediated by the brain.

For example, the idea that the brain is a complex non-linear dynamic system is mentioned only fleetingly - leaving me with the feeling that we had missed an opportunity for a useful discussion (such as perhaps making a connection with the ideas advocated by Polkinghorne regarding the possibility of chaotic systems «amplifying» quantum level uncertainties up to the macro-level).

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

We regard free will as involving a personal judgement rather than one determined by physical nature, however complex the nexus of stimuli and neurological impulses in the brain.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

Wilson has dedicated his life to persuading us to think of ourselves as animals who, by dint of luck and natural selection, have evolved to possess highly complex brains.

Dillard recognizes this unhappy position: «By those lights, there is not order anywhere but in our brains, which are uniquely adapted for inventing and for handling complex abstractions....

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Understanding complex social problems (including resources and resistance to change) is best achieved by utilizing the group's total brain - power and experience in subcommittees with specific tasks.

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.

Medically, a concussion is a complex, pathophysiological event to the brain that is induced by trauma which may or may not involve a loss of consciousness (LOC).

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

«When you observe the complexity of oscillatory phenomena in the brain, it seems reasonable to assume that it can be explained by an equally complex system that underlies these oscillations,» Alonso said.

Our sleep - wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, is the result of a complex balance between states of alertness and sleepiness regulated by a part of the brain called Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SNC); in puberty, shifts in our body clocks push optimal sleep later into the evening, making it extremely difficult for most teenagers to fall asleep before 11.00 pm.

This brain structure does not exist in birds; instead, complex mental tasks are managed by the so - called pallium.

Find out at the monthly Brains and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by Georgia State University, when biologist Mary Kennedy discusses the complex brain pathways that allow us to create memories.

According to the social theory of intelligence articulated by N. K. Humphrey and Jane Goodall, complex brains blossom in complex social settings; chimps and dolphins have to be smart to read the intentions of other chimps and dolphins.

Scientists headed by Dr. Stevens Rehen differentiated human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into neural stem cells and into further complex tridimensional structures, known as neurospheres and brain organoids.

A research team, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.

As a group of researchers in Germany now reports this week in Chaos, from AIP Publishing, one way to get closer to the complex wiring of the human brain is by merging concepts from a timed - based synchronization theory and space - based network theory to construct functional brain networks.

It is a product of all five senses (hearing included) interacting in unexpected ways, those sensory signals subject to gross revision as they are integrated by the brain into one complex, sometimes wonderful perception.

Research coordinated by Osaka University has now shown that the nuclear protein complex cohesin must be expressed at sufficient levels in the early mouse brain to control gene regulation and allow development of healthy neuronal networks and behavioral characteristics.

«It is as if the brain reacts to a stimulus by building then razing a tower of multi-dimensional blocks, starting with rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D), and then more complex geometries with 4D, 5D, etc..

«While neuroimaging studies can tell us a great deal about the brain's response to complex events, it's only by studying patients with brain injury that we can see if a brain region is actually needed to perform a given task,» said Dr Clark.

Complex Tears: Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain by Michael Trimble Oxford University Press, 2012 ($ 29.95)

By studying other parts of the brain in both humans and monkeys, however, a team from Johns Hopkins University has now concluded that last - minute decision - making is a lot more complicated than previously known, involving complex neural coordination among multiple brain areas.

By using the smaller and less complex cricket brain as a model, Dr. Adamo hopes to uncover more broad patterns of nervous system function in both immune responses and, of course, behavior.

Some computer scientists think that by letting chips build themselves, the chips will turn out to be stunninglyefficient, complex, effective, and weird — kind of like our brains.

One such possibility is suggested by first author of the study Laura D. Lewis, Ph.D. «This technique now gives us a method for obtaining much more detailed information about the complex brain activity that takes place during sleep, as well as other dynamic switches in brain states, such as when under anesthesia and during hallucinations.»

Buchanan found that he could boost variability by manipulating a specific set of neurons in the brain region called the central complex.

By «giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action,» he said, the new initiative will help scientists find a cure for complex brain processes such as traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's, and create jobs that «we haven't even dreamt up yet.»

«By looking comprehensively at gene expression within cells, we can now spot numerous important differences in complex tissues like the brain that are invisible today,» said George Church, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Characterized by heterogeneous symptoms and a multifactorial origin, this complex condition evolves during brain development.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

As complex societies emerged, brains shrank because those previously unable to survive by wits alone could now scrape by with the help of others.

Gottfried adds, however, that the study brings up interesting questions regarding how complex smells are sensed by the nose and brain.

By twinning the Autism Genome Project with brain imaging studies, it may finally be possible to reach an understanding of the complex and highly variable disorder.

The new findings are the latest evidence that eating is a complex biological behavior mediated by multiple sites in the brain.

The team found lower levels of TRNP1 in areas that were destined to form folds, and higher levels in areas that would not have developed them, suggesting that the protein produced by the gene inhibits more complex brain development in humans as well as in mice.

Even if it were possible, mainstream neuroscientists say, reengineering the brain at the level of detail envisioned by Markram would tell us nothing about cognition, memory or emotion — just as copying the hardware in a computer, atom by atom, would tell us little about the complex software running on it.

Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, as evidenced by a 520 - million - year - old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well - preserved brain structures.

In the case of gene editing, Verma is creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients by taking, for example, skin cells of patients, coaxing them back into an early stem cell state, and then providing conditions to make those cells develop into more complex brain, lung, prostate and breast tissues.

The major theme of Bio-X is to unlock the secrets of the human body by treating body and brain as a whole assembly of complex organ systems that interact with each other dynamically.

By blending classical and cutting - edge genetic approaches, Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.Researches behavior and behavioral abnormalities, including addiction, ADHD and depression, using mouse genetics as a platform.Vivek Kumar is unveiling the genes at work within the brain to control complex behaviors, such as anxiety and addiction.

The new method, called «Decoded Neurofeedback,» works by reading and identifying fears in the brain by scanning brain activity for complex patterns that resemble specific fear memories.

By exploring how the brain perceives, decides, remembers and reacts, they also are revealing how, in the words of Vanderbilt neuroscientist René Marois, «this piece of flesh could yield such a complex thing as the mind.»

By working our the details of spatial navigation in primate memory brain regions, our work will lay the foundation for understanding how these mechanisms underlie the formation of complex memories, not only in monkeys, but in humans as well.