Sentences with phrase «from brain scanners»
But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.
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The UM team analyzed hundreds of brain scans of participants, ranging in age from 6 to 86, who were all in a «resting state,» which means they were not engaged in any particular task while in the fMRI scanner.
An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memoBrain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memobrain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.
A PET scanner can then detect the radioactive particles emitted from inside the brain, representing areas of increased microglial activation before and after immune stimulation with LPS.
Researchers from the University's Psychological Sciences department identified 38 healthy individuals aged between 18 and 63 and tested their propensity to hallucinate, musical aptitude and measured their detailed brain structure using an MRI scanner.
Next, after obtaining permission from their caregivers, the team put two brain - damaged patients into the scanner — a 20 - year - old female patient who fell into a coma in 2007 after suffering brain damage of unknown origins, and the 35 - year - old man.
In a study reported in the June 2016 issue of Cerebral Cortex, Heini Saarimäki of Aalto University in Finland and her colleagues observed volunteers in a brain scanner who were being prompted to recall memories they associated with words drawn from six emotional categories or to reflect on a movie clip selected to provoke certain emotions.
The scanner data suggests that the vmPFC integrates information from other brain areas and uses this information to calculate an overall value.
By the time Patel emerges from the scanner, rubbing his eyes, it's past 11 p.m. «I can try to print a copy of your brain now or e-mail it to you later,» Greene says.
Brain Scanner is Simon Oxenham's weekly column that sifts the pseudoscience from the neuroscience
A new study by researchers from the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University and Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet shows that people with PTSD have an imbalance between two neurochemical signalling systems of the brain, serotonin and substance P. Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark led the study using a so - called PET scanner to measure the relationship between these systems.
The finger scanner is something totally new for the Samsung's devices range, and although one should claim that Samsung took inspiration from Apple for this, but still — a feature that is coming to good use, is good for the users (who cares if it is copied or is an original one from an innovative brain?).
At a second point in time, their brains were scanned while they participated in a virtual social task in the scanner, during which they were gradually excluded from the social interaction; this paradigm has previously been found to provoke significant social distress that is correlated with activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)(31), a brain region associated with monitoring threat.