Sentences with phrase «encoded in different brain regions»

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Obese adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared with their lean peers in regions of the brain that encode the sensory experience of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes of neurons that reach across different structures in the brain.

By looking at activation of different brain regions while test subjects were exposed to different listening conditions, Dr. Johnsrude's research has revealed that the early processing of sound, which occurs in a brain region called the primary auditory cortex, depends on higher - level linguistic knowledge encoded in other regions of the brain.

For example, Kerr said, «Based on the predominantly somatic descriptions of mindfulness experience offered by the belly - focused group, we would expect there to be more ongoing, resting - state functional connectivity in this group across different parts of a large brain region called the insula that encodes visceral, somatic sensations and also provides a readout of the emotional aspects of so - called «gut feelings».»