Sentences with phrase «different parts of the brain»

This active interaction between different parts of the brain is necessary for a person to be aware of her surroundings, or to be able to focus on his work or switch between tasks.

Indeed, not only did cognitive performance improve, they saw a marked boost in how different parts of their brains worked together.

As we age, we use different parts of our brain compared to our younger selves.

Developing and connecting different parts of our brain (neural integration) increases wisdom, helps us manage uncertainty and complexity and improves the quality of our relationships and increases our well being.

It is because different kinds of editing require you to think with different parts of your brain, and so you can not do them all at once.

They found that many different parts of the brain were involved in activity in the third of these states.

Did you know that singing and regular speech actually come from different parts of the brain?

These findings provide important clues about the strategies and division of labor among different parts of the brain when it comes to using the working memory.

Teach them what the parts of the brain are called, and talk about how different parts of the brain controls their emotions and feelings.

While these sets of skills may appear similar, they are actually controlled by different parts of the brain.

In fact, different cognitive functions require different parts of the brain.

This engages a whole different part of the brain, has a relaxing effect, and also involves some physical precision which requires concentration around your muscles.

Because we can simultaneously record from many neurons in different parts of the brain at once, we can analyze how these different regions communicate with one another.

The idea of stimulating different parts of the brain with electricity may sound futuristic, but these types of treatments have a remarkably long history.

During this active state, different parts of the brain communicate with each other.

Because different parts of the brain control different aspects of bodily functions, one closed head injury symptoms could be drastically different than the next.

As different parts of the brain require more energy for task completion, greater blood flow is also needed.

She suggests coloring different parts of brain slices (from dead people) using specific dyes and viewing them under a microscope.

Most editors and authors don't pay too much attention to unnecessary white space — nor should they because writing and editing use completely different parts of the brain than formatting.

Different parts of the brain mature at different rates.

They might, for instance, encourage the creation of additional blood vessels or new connections between brain cells or between different parts of the brain.

This suggests that dogs, like us, process different components of human speech in different parts of the brain.

In addition, romantic / emotional bonding is fundamentally different from sexual desire (love and sex are governed by different parts of the brain and different hormones in the body).

OK, so if everyone expresses emotions in a different way using different parts of the brain, how can we say that forcing a smile will make everyone happy?

Stories involve different parts of our brain, which makes learning (and remembering) more effective.

And it's also load - balanced in the sense that with brain imaging you can see the oxygenated blood being shunted between different parts of the brain on a time scale of a second or two as activity shifts — these are the «hot» spots.

When I was 8 years old, it caused this disorder called hydrocephalus where the tumor is blocking the cerebral fluid in the brain and that automatically creates pressure within the ventricles and it starts affecting different parts of the brain, and in my case it damaged my optic nerve.

Because facial expressions activate different parts of the brain, paralyzing minute facial movements reduces the amount of impulses sent to the brain.

Rob Barton of Durham University and Chris Venditti of the University of Reading, both in the UK, examined how the relative sizes of different parts of the brain changed as primates evolved.

«This research gives us deeper insights into how people make decisions relevant to law, and particularly how different parts of the brain contribute to decisions about crime and punishment.

As part of his training he became involved in neuroscience research; in particular he was part of group that was using new imaging techniques to see how different parts of the brain worked together in real time.

That is to say my tribesmen know the difference between instinct, intelligence and intuition though they do not know it comes from different parts of the brain like Medula oblongata, cerebrum and cerebellum.

Led by Professor Jianfeng Feng in the Department of Computer Science, studies at Warwick and in China have been recently undertaken to quantify the brain's dynamic functions, and identify how different parts of the brain interact with each other at different times — namely, to discover how intellect works.

«Just to have this conversation, I'm activating several different parts of my brain.»

These oscillations in the dying rats were synchronized across different parts of the brain, even more so than in the rat's normal waking state.

The cast includes Whitney Cummings as Julia Brizendine, the narrator and neuropsychiatrist who takes the audience from each different female character and explains what different parts of the brain respond to and how men respond back.

Few labs could afford to grow enough mini-brains to be useful for research, Song says, and those that did produced tissues with cells specialized for different parts of the brain mixed together at random.

FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Both an internal «clock» and an internal «hourglass» affect how different parts of your brain respond to sleep deprivation, a new study shows.

You can exercise different parts of the brain to increase its function,» said Dr. Jared Seigler.

«Different parts of the brain appear to use different strategies to filter out distractions,» says Dr. Simon Jacob, who carried out research in Tübingen before switching to the Psychiatric Clinic at the Charité hospitals in Berlin.

We need to understand how billions of neurons in different parts of the brain talk to each other, and how malfunctions in neural connections get expressed as behavioral abnormalities.»

(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

In an era of increasing excitement about mapping the brain's «connectome,» this finding fits with our growing understanding of complex brain functions as residing not in discrete brain regions, but in densely connected networks of neurons spread throughout different parts of the brain.

Phantom limb pain is thought to relate to a «rewiring» of different parts of the brain associated with physical stimulus.

The testing looks at how well different parts of the brain — the left and right prefrontal cortices — operate together at rest, which helps determine the rate of decline of speech abilities in the patient, she said.

The team used this change in the variability of the song to look at how the activity of single cells in different parts of the brain altered their activity depending on the social environment.

Other scientists probing different parts of the brain's memory machinery are similarly finding that memory is inherently flexible.