Sentences with phrase «different brain patterns»

Professional athletes, although some of them don't seem like they are the brightest bulb in the box, still have to store millions of different brain patterns.

Not exact matches

The ingrained patterns in her brain reform and she becomes an entirely different person.
It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.
As you read these lines, they induce different firing patterns in the brain.
Conversely, the panpsychist or nonmaterialist must claim either that both the mental images with their spatiotemporal pattern and the brain with its different and incompatible spatiotemporal pattern are real, or that the images are real and the brain itself only an appearance.
It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.
It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15
For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.
Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.
At night, the sleeping reptiles» brains produced rhythms that could be separated into two different patterns — one at very low frequency, about 4HZ, and another, higher frequency about 20HZ, the team reports today in Science.
The patterns of brain activity that accompany those similar early and late movements are actually completely different though.
Bierut: The brain is a very complex organ and what's clear is these different types of brain wave patterns are related to numerous complex in our actions between neurotransmitters and some of the brain receptors, and it's some of the balance between how much of these proteins are produced — how are they regulated — are likely to be involved in some of these biologic predispositions.
That is because when the brain thinks about moving both arms at once, the activity is not merely a sum of what you might see if you moved each arm individually, but a completely different pattern.
And what was very interesting was that it was revealed that you could identify that the children of alcoholics had different patterns of brain wave activity than the children of the non-alcoholics, so it really seems to be a biologic predisposition.
The experiment revealed that after the phone was switched to «talk» mode a different brain - wave pattern, called delta waves (in the range of one to four Hertz), remained dampened for nearly one hour after the phone was shut off.
In a human brain, 85 billion nerve cells communicate via trillions of connections using complex patterns of electrical jolts and more than 100 different chemicals.
After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.
The team found the painful and painless procedures produced markedly different brain - wave patterns.
Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.
Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.
«Movies synchronize brains: Brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people.»
«The pattern of eye movements is like the blueprint that the brain uses to piece different parts of the memory together so that we experience it as a whole.»
The injury was not isolated to one area of the brain, and each individual had a different pattern of injury.
The study, led by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, found that younger and older adults show very different brain wave patterns when performing the same memory task.
«It's remarkable to see how different the older participants» brain patterns are from the younger participants, while still maintaining accuracy,» said Rondina.
Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.
Two patients tried different thoughts or images until the pattern of activity in their brain could reliably move the cursor.
Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.
Intriguingly, if the brain fuses the images, it has a strong tendency to complete either the monkey or the foliage — even though doing so requires assembling fragments from two different eyes to complete the patterns.
Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.
This may help the brain design unique patterns when similar actions are performed in different environments.
Instead of the brain computing a colour based on the numerical ratio of different colour amounts detected by the photoreceptors, the photoreceptors respond in a particular pattern, which is then sent to the brain.
Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.
Remarkably, a similar pattern emerged in participants» brain responses: worse - formed syllables (e.g., lbif) exerted different demands on the brain than syllables that are well - formed (e.g., blif).
When multiple maps are overlaid, patterns begin to emerge that show how different regions of the brain activate specific and often discrete complements of genes.
The scientists were further able to demonstrate how the brain implements this placebo effect: although the subjects were given the same pain stimuli, the nerve cells in the second run triggered a different pattern of brain activity.
The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.
Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity.
And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.
«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.
«Interestingly, research has suggested that these same brain patterns measured during these states are related to different cognitive abilities.»
Thus, the sensory stimuli alone were not sufficient to explain the different pattern of information transfer to the remote brain areas.
But brain cells that had been created using the direct conversion technique had different patterns of gene expression depending on whether they were created from young donors or older adults.
«At the heart of these methods is the ability to test if patterns of brain activity are more alike for two similar styles of music compared to different styles.
Michael Greicius at Stanford University in California and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain activity associated with different mental states.
Then Seung could see if the patterns of connections are different in the brains of healthy people and those with autism, schizophrenia, and other disorders.
Study two involved measuring patterns of brain activity in a different group of participants (non-musicians) who took part in a word generation task and a music perception task.
The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.
THE brain has such fine control over the muscles used to speak that every sound produces a different pattern of neural activity.
Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.
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