Sentences with phrase «develop big brains»

But giving birth to offspring that will develop big brains is a challenge, because the mechanics of getting a big head out of a mother's body are, well, difficult.

We developed big brains not to conquer our environment or to outwit our predators and prey, but to deal with * each other *.

Evolution could have pushed fruit - eating primates to develop bigger brains to deal with these complex foraging conditions, DeCasien says.

But for Dunbar, a key question remains: Why was that energy directed toward developing a bigger brain, and not some other body part?

Humans diverged from their closest relatives, chimpanzees, about 5 to 7 million years ago and the transition required a host of nutrients that were particularly beneficial to developing bigger brains.

Not exact matches

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

This multivitamin plays a big role to develop a baby's brain, nervous system and eye.

But I think I took a couple of things away: One was really that in infancy... attachment - promoting behavior — that helping him manage stress the way that those mother rats helped their pups manage stress — was a hugely important thing, and that was going to make a big difference in terms of how his brain develops, how his stress response system develops, and that that was going to help him a lot going forward.

«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

Dagdeviren has big plans for the brain implant, and she is developing ideas for piezoelectric - based devices that harvest energy from outside the body, such as from the motions of knees and elbows.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

The biggest need for infant brain surgery in the developing world is infection - caused hydrocephalus.»

Suspecting that the disease works differently in humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based human system for their research.

Gotsis said VR could have an even bigger impact on the developing brains of children.

«The big - picture question is whether there is a way to support the developing fetal brain to improve outcomes, and lower the risk of schizophrenia,» says Dr. Bassett.

«As we develop drugs that work by targeting the primary brain pathology in schizophrenia, it is likely that the differences between patients are going to play a bigger role in determining optimal treatment,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

The new results indicate that as brains grew larger and entered the world in a less developed state, it became increasingly advantageous to relax the genetic control of their organization, essentially providing a bigger, blanker canvas for adapting and learning.

The blue stains in these developing mice embryos show that the human DNA inserted into the rodents turns on sooner and is more widespread (right) than the chimp version of the same DNA, promoting a bigger brain.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

«It tells us that long before hominids developed tools or big brains or ranged the open savanna, they were walking upright.»

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

As man developed more control of his environment, the luxury of a bigger reflective brain correlated with the evolution of the PFC to its current proportions.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

Our brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits with a big impact on non-digital reading

Smaller dogs seem to dream more frequently and have shorter dreams than bigger dogs, and puppies tend to have more dreams than older dogs, perhaps due to their developing brains; everything is newer to them, so they have more to process than older dogs, who have become accustomed to things they've been seeing and experiencing for years.

Here are 11 things you CAN do to help your big - bodied but still puppy - brained adolescent develop into that ideal service dog you hoped for.

But Nintendo, based in Kyoto, Japan, has also developed several titles for middle - aged adults, like Brain Age and Big Brain Academy, two memory - training games, and Flash Focus, a game designed to improve visual acuity.

The biggest danger when a hematoma develops is the loss of oxygen to the brain.

What a child experiences in his first years of life makes a big difference in how his brain will develop and how he will interact with the world throughout his life.