Sentences with phrase «cortex did»

«You get areas that process body shapes with whatever input you give them — the visual cortex doesn't just process visual information.»

«If we can make the visual cortex do math,» Bedny said, «in principle we can make any part of the brain do anything.»

The study further adds that the brain's visual cortex does not lose all of its properties even when completely deprived of vision.

The prefrontal cortex does not.

In humans, the orbitofrontal cortex is active during expressions of regret, and humans with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex do not express regret.

In adrenal insufficiency (AI), the cortex does not make enough steroid hormones.

During those episodes, the pre-frontal cortex doesn't even have a chance.

Not exact matches

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

«What all of these innovation centers do is create opportunities for people to cross-pollinate,» says Dennis Lower, president and CEO of Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis.

But most of the people I talked to about the case did not care about her cerebral cortex.

But the ordinary people I am referring to do not want to live with a damaged but functioning cerebral cortex that results in limited or deranged behavior.

The Educare model puts as much emphasis on the development of children's noncognitive capacities as it does on their literacy and numeracy abilities, which means that kids in Educare centers are surrounded by lots of the interactive nurturance that fortifies their prefrontal cortex and leads to healthy executive - function development.

How do you strengthen the prefrontal cortex?

The fact is that the prefrontal cortex, where reasoning, logic, and forethought take place, is highly immature in toddlers and preschoolers and actually doesn't develop fully until the mid-twenties!

we all need the experience in doing that growing up, in order to develop the prefrontal cortex because that is where executive function lies, that's where self discipline lies.

Toddlers don't have a fully developed frontal cortex, so their emotions routinely overcome their knowledge that «hitting hurts.»

As mentioned in the last chapter, though, the prefrontal cortex, where reasoning, logic, and forethought take place, is highly immature in toddlers and preschoolers and actually doesn't develop fully until the mid-twenties.

Because of this different anatomy, many scientists proposed that the bird DVR does not correspond to the mammalian cortex but is instead analogous to another mammalian brain structure called the amygdala.

It turns out that if someone is actively craving cocaine, or if you expose an addict to stimuli that remind the addict of cocaine and activate the craving, what you are doing is increasing activity in an area of the prefrontal cortex called the orbitofrontal cortex.

A genetic tweak in a portion of the cortex gene that doesn't make protein painted the speckled gray wings of peppered moths black, researchers report online June 1 in Nature.

Does that play a role in the problems in the prefrontal cortex?

«The cortex basically takes all the information coming in and synthesizes it into reality,» says David E. Nichols, a professor of medicinal chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who has done animal research on hallucinogens.

According to the scientists, the study offers evidence neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain start processing information in anticipation of where we are going to look before we ever do it, suggesting that selective processing might be the mechanism for visual stability.

«It [the cortex] has access to information that the amygdala does not,» he notes.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

Only then did the prefrontal cortex hand off to the motor cortex to generate a spoken response.

A brain - dead organ donor's brain stem is also down — but we do not know, given the limitations of the Harvard criteria and their focus entirely on the brain stem, what is going on with the donor's cerebral cortex or everything beyond the brain stem.

But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so scientists weren't sure what the region did.

Their brains weighed significantly less than those of their counterparts that did not have CHD, and their cortexes had less of the gray matter that processes information.

Research done by Dr. Christopher Pack, from McGill University, who looked at such waves occurring in a region of the visual cortex of the brain, suggests these oscillations could have a role in resetting the sensitivity of neurons after eye movements.

I don't know, but in light of what we found in the motor cortex, it's a very interesting quotation.

After three months of feeding, the mice had reductions in Aβ plaques of up to 70 percent in the hippocampus and up to 40 percent in the cortex, whereas mice fed capsules that contained lettuce leaves without CTB - MBP added and mice that were not fed any capsules did not have any reduction in evidence of brain plaques.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

Although fairly common, damage to the prefrontal lobes (also called the prefrontal cortex) is often overlooked and undiagnosed because patients do not manifest obvious deficits.

Long - term planning, such as saving for retirement or committing to an exercise plan, is done in the brain's prefrontal cortex.

They have different jobs to do in the cortex.

Thirteen volunteers received TRNS to their prefrontal cortices, a part of the brain involved in higher cognition, while doing these problems for five days in a row.

To do this, they inserted genes into neurons of the prefrontal cortex that would turn the neurons on when exposed to light.

In contrast, the researchers did not find age - related differences in another area of the brain connected to memory, the posteromedial entorhinal cortex.

Does a female enhance her future health and fertility by supplying junior with a thick cortex and super SAT scores?

The human version of that switch produces a 12 percent larger cortex than a chimpanzee version does, the Duke team reports February 19 in Current Biology.

Intriguingly, what made cortex such an elusive switch to spot was the fact that it does not do this.

The amount of white matter — the bundles of axons that connect different parts of the brain — did not differ, nor did the overall surface area of the brain cortex.

«We did not find group differences in their use of the nucleus accumbens or medial prefrontal cortex,» Tashjian said.

«Our work is the first to suggest that subplate neurons do more than bridge the gap between the thalamus and the cortex, forming the structure for future circuits,» Kanold said.

However, if you lose your cerebral cortex, which has about 30 billion neurons, you don't exist.

Finn says she does not have a good answer yet but she is now testing the effects of «turning off» the adult prefrontal cortex using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation.

With the left or right parietal cortex numbed, the test subjects were less able to detect objects placed in the visual field controlled by the numb side of their brain and did even worse still if there was also an object in the functioning half of the field.

«There's something about sequencing and updating that really taps into the things that only the pre-frontal cortex can do, the real - world problem - solving tasks.»

The disparity suggests that dribbling didn't tax the expert player's prefrontal cortex as heavily, leaving it free to deal with other challenges.