Sentences with phrase «called brain maps»
«Merzenich's speciality [was] in improving people's ability to [rewire and redesign] the brain by training specific processing areas, called brain maps, so that they do more mental work.»
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The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.
In April, researchers led by Hongkui Zeng of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lBrain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lbrain (left).
The owl's auditory map room is a brain area called the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX), as a group led by Stanford's Eric Knudsen discovered in the early 1980s.
In January, Knudsen's team discovered that a brain area called the optic tectum (OT) sends visual signals that tweak the map: When the team members destroyed the connections between the OT and ICX, the map ceased adjusting.
The researchers used a technique called laser scanning photostimulation to map the connections between individual subplate neuron cells in the brains of the mouse pups.
Connectomics not only maps the circuitry of the links and nodes, the so - called structural connectivity of the brain, but also the dynamic correlations that arise among regions when circuits are active: the functional connectivity.
Stolk plans future studies with Knight using fine - tuned brain mapping on the actual surfaces of the brains of volunteers, so - called electrocorticography.
The researchers report their experience with MRI - guided SLAH in 13 adult patients with epilepsy mapped to a part of the brain called the mesial temporal lobe.
That question can be answered by a technique called «brain warping,» in which landmarks in the brain are mapped (by a thin - plate spline or a similar transformation) to corresponding points on a «brain atlas.»
Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.
To do this they will combine several imaging tools including something called diffusion MRI, which maps the structure of the white matter that insulates the «wires» of the brain, and also resting - state MRI, which measures how brain regions oscillate in unison as a result of shared connections.
For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.
That genetic map led to key insights, such as the link between glioblastoma, the deadliest type of brain tumor, and a gene called BEX1.
The researchers looked, for instance, at a part of the brain called the somatosensory cortex, which contains a kind of map of the body.
Neuroscientist mapping the brain states accessed during meditation say that meditation slows the patterns called delta waves.
And the students who were calling out the correct answers had rewired their brain to such an extent that they had created a much more complex brain, with associated brain map advancements, that provided the neurobiological means for more complex neurological firings to take place, which then provided the means for advanced cognition and intellectual insights to transpire.
Behind this curatorial play of absences and hauntings, past a glass wall inscribed with the apt «The Middle of the Middle of the Middle of», in Lawrence Weiner's familiar font, within the Fridericianum's cranial rotunda, is what Christov - Bakargiev calls the «brain», a densely choreographed collection of small objects from disparate epochs and cultures — a mind - map and microcosm of dOCUMENTA (13) as a whole.
I love Dan Siegel's model of the mind, which he has extending well outside the boundaries of the brain — and have written about how online connectedness can help expand what he calls our «we map.»
He calls this having a richly detailed Love Map — his term for that part of your brain where you store all the relevant information about your partner's life.
A Love Map is what Dr. Gottman calls the part of the brain where we store important details about our partner's life including their likes, dislikes, fears, and dreams.