Sentences with phrase «complex neural structures»

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From these findings, it follows that morality can be described physically, as a complex interplay of neural structures and neural chemistry in the brain.

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.

Alternatively, engineers have tried using more complex «neural networks» of sensors, which estimate the strain at a broken sensor based on readings from other sensors throughout the structure.

«Our prosocial and altruistic impulses play a very important role in sustaining complex societal structure,» explained Giorgia Silani, the principal investigator of this research conducted at SISSA and now a researcher housed in University of Vienna, «However, studying altruism and its neural basis in lab - based environment poses unique ethical challenges.

«Our results demonstrate that even the simplest brain structures may play a fundamental role in complex neural processes of perception and attention,» said Frank Tong, professor of psychology at Vanderbilt, who conducted the study with postdoctoral fellow Michael Pratte and Sam Ling at Boston University.

In studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structures.