Sentences with phrase «conscious brain»

The amount of information in our day to day lives is more than our slow moving conscious brain can handle.

A new application of a common clinical test, the positron emission tomography (PET) scan, seems to be able to differentiate between minimally conscious brains and those in a vegetative state.

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.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

The brainiest creatures share a secret — an odd kind of brain cell involved in emotions and empathy that may have accidentally made us conscious

The difference between a vegetative and a minimally conscious brain was looking like a question of how much brain wiring remained intact and, more important, still able to pass along a signal.

This is the subconscious mind of your customers whispering to their conscious brain while visiting your website and deciding who is going to win their hard - earned money today.

«Stress causes the brain intake systems to send information into the Reactive brain (automatic - fight, flight, freeze) and prevents information flow through to the Reflective higher thinking, conscious brain (prefrontal cortex) where long - term memory is constructed,» explains neurologist Judy Willis on Psychology Today.

So give your conscious brain a break and let your rich subconscious pick up the slack; the perfect baby name just might come to you in your dreams.

In my view the conscious brain does not act according to classical physics.

It takes the conscious brain a moment to remind us there's no real danger.

The conscious brain took its own, distinctive path.

On its face (or hand), it's a prime example of how little control our conscious brains seem to have over unwanted habits.

Damasio, who directs the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute, wrote Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Pantheon, 2010) to explore «the phenomenal ability that consists of having a mind equipped with an owner.»

Most of these approaches define a conscious brain as an integrated brain, where groups of cells in many different regions activate to form a cohesive pattern, explains Marcello Massimini, a neurophysiologist at the University of Milan in Italy.

Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo - biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain - injured patient.

My subconscious brain couldn't be more certain of my responses, while my rational, conscious brain is thinking, Huh?!

It also serves as a way to «prove» to your conscious brain that you can survive quite nicely on smaller amounts of food and that you don't need to «make up» for those temporarily lost calories.

It is a brilliant step - by - step practice that teaches us how our conscious brain can access the subconscious brain and thereby alter automatic physiologic and emotional responses.

You will, invariably, find you need to rely on «willpower» — the conscious brain's ability to override your subconscious brain for a time.

Our conscious brain has accepted the change, the older sub conscious brain needs more time.

It's like the conscious brain becomes a coach for itself.

But my conscious brain knew that if I ever got that big prize — the big book contract or the major bestseller, I'd have to face the fact that my Midnight in Paris fantasy was never going to happen.

It was at exactly this point in the dream that his conscious nose flashed a message of alarm to his not - quite - conscious brain.

Conscious brains are a hybrid device, part generators of squiggly electric current waves and part receivers of mind waves from the field of consciousness, the most fundamental of the quantum fields that fill the universe.

«Moving at the speed of light, the electric impulses delivered their message to his conscious brain as the hammer fell on the revolver.

The muscles actually have their own memory and can perform repetitive motion with very little input from the conscious brain.

Given a few seconds to search memory cells, the human subconscious might say «ah ha, this looks like something I've seen on TV» and it begins to transmit that data to the conscious brain.

I figured out pretty quickly that I retained the books best by putting on a video game that would occupy my hands and eyes but not my conscious brain, and made it through all my required high school reading that way.

Rail: And the paint can not be too thickly applied, and for any kind of revision in the process of painting, you have to adjust your idea immediately, otherwise, as you once said before, your conscious brain is constricted to your previous experience.

That is, talking to the conscious brain while the primal brain is deciding things even before you are consciously aware?