Sentences with phrase «features in the human brain»

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The regularities of the brain and the emergent features of human purposes enable us to connect brain, mind and God in an understandable and fruitful way.

With the brain being our most distinguishing feature, human milk has high levels of lactose and specific long chain fatty acids that are important in the development of our brains.

And in normal human development, these right - brain features are able to control our brain's survival systems, which include stress response.

A Role for the Right A counterintuitive but essential feature of Petkov's results, similar to the corresponding findings in the human brain, is that voice - selective activity was stronger in the right hemisphere.

Scientists from the department of social neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) together with colleagues from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) explored the question at what age we develop the motivation to watch, from our perspective, a deserved punishment and if this feature also exists in our closest relatives — chimpanzees.

They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the cells to form blobs with working neurons and many other features of a full - size human brain.

«Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them: Study challenges traditional hierarchy of brain decoding; offers insight into how the brain makes perceptual judgements.»

Fiez, who studies the neuroscience of reading, says those features may tap into how our eyes and brains process images: Neurons fire faster at the site of objects that display vertical symmetry — like human faces — and horizontal and vertical lines, which are common in natural landscapes.

Algorithms must first find a face, and then find the eyes and other features that human brains take in at once.

Models using human tissues, reproducing key features of biochemistry and physiology, have enormous potential in brain research.

Images of it hint at interesting features close to one brain region associated with speech in modern humans, she says.

«Asymmetrical brain landmarks may be key features to understand what is so specific in our species,» says Leroy, since left and right sides of the human brain tend to perform different tasks.

The second used brain organoids, which are often referred to as miniature brains growing in petri dishes, but are actually just bundles of human tissue that have some features of the early human brain in the first trimester.

UC San Francisco researchers have identified cells» unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large - scale cell surveys can be done much more efficiently and cheaply than was previously thought possible.

But for several years scientists at Stanford University's School of Medicine have been working to mimic in a petri dish critical features of development of a human cerebral cortex — essentially working to build models for watching a brain grow.

In terms of features from the late archaic / early modern humans found throughout the Old World, the researchers observed the fossils as having a large size that fitted a large brain, and cranial vaults that were lightly built and had modest brow ridges.

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

A supposed new species of human with an exceptionally small brain and an unusual combination of both primitive and more modern human - like features has been discovered in a remote South African cave chamber, according to research published in the journal eLIFE.

The ACC and FI, though sometimes considered ancient in phylogeny, feature a large bipolar projection neuron, the von Economo neuron (VEN), which is found only in humans, apes, and selected whales - all large - brained mammals with complex social structures.

This approach shows that BOLD and field potential measures provide complementary information about human brain activity and we infer that features of the field potential that are uncorrelated with BOLD arise largely from changes in synchrony, rather than level, of neuronal activity.

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To the theme tune of an external hard drive processing fast — now pacing itself — now rushing at breakneck speed — the group of seventeen paintings, produced between 2000 and 2011, each beautifully reproduced in the well - designed catalogue — featuring a sharp, in - depth and elegantly - written essay by Goldsmiths» Gilda Williams — reflect the inner workings of a human brain constantly adjusting itself, adapting to each nuance of the ever - expanding, digital world while simultaneously filing, absorbing and recording the less serious, more random aspects — graffiti, toys, comic books, cartoon films — of modern times.