Sentences with phrase «by the brain as»

These impulses, in turn, are interpreted by the brain as sound.

These can be used by the brain as fuel.

This is interpreted by the brain as starvation, so we become more hungry and start burning fewer calories.

Strict compliance with this diet causes the liver to produce ketones which are used by the brain as an alternative fuel source.

This can cause chronic insomnia because the blue light these devices emit is perceived by our brains as daytime light, which suppresses melatonin and keeps us awake.

Readers still accomplished the reading task by translating graphic symbols (letters) on a printed page into an oral code (sounds corresponding to those letters) which was then treated by the brain as oral language.

The anxiety that is created by the uncertainty and confrontive nature of a court hearing forces many people to agree to agreements merely to avoid the «fight or flight» messages being sent to them by their brains as the trial date approaches.

Not exact matches

By using our own brain as a model, this technology is able to apply human intuition at machine speed.

While the emerging field of neuromarketing seeks to address this issue by peering directly into the brain, there are things we can do easily and cheaply to make sure we're not reacting just to consumers» conscious minds, but to their unconscious as well.

In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

Tons of people who have objectively bad sleep as measured by surveys, brain waves, and sleep diaries actually don't feel troubled about their sleep at all.

As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.»

By using methods and tools such as EEG or MRI, neuromarketing read electrical signals from the brain and analyze them to provide their clients with the answers they need.

Internet commenters registered rage at what they saw as a sexist shirt promoting girls» looks over their brains by tweeting, e-mailing, and signing online petitions.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

As you train your brain by repeatedly practicing new emotionally intelligent behaviors, your brain builds the pathways needed to make them into habits.

«As a business owner, I want to be guided by both my heart and my brain.»

Created by startup Halo Neuroscience, which is backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, the gizmo, «beams a flow of electrical pulses to the brain's motor cortex,» Christina Farr writes.

As behavioral psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained on her blog recently (via a great personal story, of course), by putting us in their protagonists» shoes, stories manage to engage more of the brain than straight recitations of facts or dry arguments, leading to more arousal and interest.

Inside Out imagines the world inside a child's brain, as controlled by five emotions: here joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust.

When you try to do several things at once, you aren't more productive, but less by as much as 40 percent, according to brain scan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

This is why you want to appeal to your prospect's emotions, which are determined by the brain's limbic system, not the logical, fact - finding cortex as many people believe.

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.

It is in China's interest to respect private intellectual property rights if it wants to move beyond being described as the world's factory: if it wants would want to move from «made in China,» where goods are largely produced under foreign companies» control, to «made by China,» where Chinese companies own the brains behind the manufacturing and design of goods.

In a brief interview, business magnate Richard Branson suggested, «[exercise] keeps the brain functioning well and I definitely can achieve twice as much in a day by keeping fit.»

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

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

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.

Addyi, known to scientists as flibanserin, is thought to work by changing the balance of certain brain neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin.

A final ironic and unintended economic consequence of the Trump immigration reform plan could be a «brain drain,» as educated and potentially wealthy liberals look to escape a controversial Trump presidency, namely by moving to Canada.

Now this search data is very interesting — while our brains may immediately go to «I will sell mechanical keyboards as office supplies, and enable mass purchasing of them by IT departments», our search data actually tells us a different story:

The collaboration, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will explore the potential for online psychometric tests, such as the Cogniciti brain health test, to help identify adults at risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

My favorite is: And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

«Re-entry», as Edelman states, «provides the critical means by which the activities of distributed multiple brain areas are linked, bound, and then dynamically altered in time during perceptual categorization.

Example being, the age of Earth... what do we do when our «god - given» brains are driven crazy by what the Bible says, and what we see as reality?

Leading neuroscientists such as Duke's Miguel Nicolelis reject the transhumanist assertion that the brain could be modeled by computers.

So to label that «normal state» with a label such as «atheist», that then gets used as an epithet by the brain washed, seems pretty silly really.

During the final month his previously brilliant brain was rava.ged by cancer and he had the same behavior as # 1.

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

Agree mankind brain is his computer and in order for this computer to work it requires all the other working physical systems and senses... this computer is programed as to when it should stop working naturally but man shortened the life of that time given by destroying their health or risking their physical body into physical harm...

By itself this finding is consistent with a materialist view of mind (if, as materialism requires, the brain enables the mind, then abnormal patterns of brain activity are likely to be correlated with dysfunctional mental states).

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.

When I try to help my grandkids with their homework I try to make it as plain as possible — unless I want them to engage their brains and think, and I'm more interested in them learning to think than in learning «correct» answers by rote.

Three times I have been felled by lightning pain as seizures short - circuited my brain; Three times, waking in hospitals at dawn all memory of my poetry was gone, and once I'd nearly bitten through my tongue.