Sentences with phrase «for brain complexity»

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Humans clearly are set apart the rest of the animal kingdom if for nothing else due to the complexity of the human brain.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»

The inaccessibility of the brain to physical examination and the complexity of clinical evaluation for such conditions represent major challenges.

Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at the brain surface.

The brain's astonishing anatomical complexity has been appreciated for over 100 years, when pioneers first trained microscopes on the profusion of branching structures that connect individual neurons.

This part of the brain later expanded hugely, and is responsible for the complexity and flexibility of the mammals — including us.

Given the brain's immense intricacy, Farber says, the problem «is not that we have too much data, but that we don't have nearly enough for the complexity we're trying to address».

Perhaps fitting for a question about the human brain — which packs in more than 100 billion neurons, according to the National Institutes of Health — but the answer is mired in complexities and unknowns.

For more than a generation, people have been trying to improve understanding of human brain circuitry, but are challenged by its vast complexity.

Read Karlyn Beer's column in Xconomy on why systems biology is necessary for tackling the complexity of the brain.

William H. Calvin's marvelous A Brain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous increase in brain size and complexity in human beBrain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous increase in brain size and complexity in human bebrain size and complexity in human beings.

We also focus effort at the level of anatomy to understand the pathways of information flow in the brain for normal learning to occur, and at the behavioral level to probe the complexities of memory formation.

This study may provide new understanding of the complexities of the brain and help solve big data problems for future research.

Those details have been elusive because of the spaghetti - like complexity of the brain, which makes it extremely difficult for a scientist to isolate a neuron and its axon for manipulation and analysis, either in a lab dish or a lab animal.

The complexity of tastes, flavors, and textures in processed foods is simply more stimulating for the brain than something that comes from the earth, he explains.

It's been seven years since Braid exploded onto the market, and this week its brilliant, reclusive designer is releasing his much anticipated second game: The Witness, a brain - ravaging, mind - spraining epic that has more in common with Finnegans Wake than Grand Theft Auto V. It's billed as a puzzle game, but that hardly does the complexity justice: it's a puzzle game for the mega-brainy and super-cerebral, a puzzle game for gaming's high - brow.

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This developmental advance in right brain complexity is responsible for empathy, and therefore for that which makes an individual most «human».»