Sentences with phrase «for patterns of brain activity»

It is also notable for its pattern of brain activity, which resembles that of the waking brain.

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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.
The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.
For conceptual acts like Schwartz's «mindful attention» to permanently alter patterns of brain activity that otherwise would remain stuck is therefore exactly what one would expect if the mind transcends the brain and yet is capable of physical effects.
Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.
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.
For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that brain wave patterns deviate most from patterns of neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.
People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical activity, but not light - intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.
Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing — and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.
When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.
Some research, for example, shows that patterns of brain activity can predict our choices or actions before we become consciously aware of having made a decision, and it may be hard to reconcile this evidence with the notion of free will.
A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.
When the researchers analysed the activity in an area of the brain that is important for the production of song — an area known as nucleus RA — they found a clear correlation between its activity pattern and the occurrence of the «stack» call.
Beyond mapping the precise locations of the brain areas controlling these movements for the first time, Chang and colleagues also recorded and analyzed patterns of neuron activity in those areas.
Before making decisions about which way to turn, for example, rats pause to retrace their steps by reactivating patterns of brain activity established in previous explorations.
Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity.
Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Epilepsy Center, says the RNS system can be customized for each individual patient so that it learns which patterns of brain activity lead to seizures in that patient.
«In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice shows how the brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»
«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.
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.
Epilepsy researchers around the world have been working for decades to identify patterns of electrical activity in the brain that signal an oncoming seizure, but with limited success.
When we move our eyes in REM sleep, according to the study, specific brain regions show sudden surges of activity that resemble the pattern that occurs when we are introduced to a new image — suggesting that eye movements during REM sleep are responsible for resetting our dream «snapshots.»
For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.
They give animals a specific stimulus — a pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how neural activity depends upon the stimulus.
The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.
The brain's inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the cortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical operation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.
(23) Engaging in moderate - intensity physical activity promotes healthier patterns of glucose metabolism in the brain and represents a useful strategy for preventing glycotoxic Alzheimer's disease.
We already know that there are different kinds of brain waves for different activities, and that the pattern looks different if you're sleeping versus really concentrating.
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