But really the beauty of learning in the early childhood stage is that every time children conduct experiments with the material
in front of them their brains are figuring it out.
Many patients with injuries to the left sides of their brains also experience depression, because a region on the
left front of the brain is involved in mood control.
Your primary senses enter here and must travel to
the front of your brain before you can think rationally about your experience.
The cap then measures electrical activity in
the front of the brain — particularly, the ratio of «fast waves» to «slow waves.»
This nerve, discovered within the last few years, sits at
the front of our brain, in front of the olfactory nerve, and is very small and fragile.
The waves can ricochet from
the front of the brain to the back, or from deep structures all the way to the scalp and then back again.
Insights into this thin layer of neurons at
the front of the brain could answer questions that have flummoxed scientists for generations.
They also found that the olfactory lobe at
the front of the brain, which processes the sense of smell, was shunted downwards (PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0011946).
In 2008 the scientists reported that during the psychological refractory period, a network of brain regions are consistently active, some near
the front of the brain and some near the back.
While they remained at a distance, the same brain regions tended to become active in the players, a network that included parts of the amygdala as well as some other structures in
the front of the brain.
University of California, Berkeley neuroscientists have tracked the progress of a thought through the brain, showing clearly how the prefrontal cortex at
the front of the brain coordinates activity to help us act in response to a perception.
A separate network of regions in
the front of the brain is responsible for evaluating conflicting impulses.
Even more interestingly, Wager and his colleagues saw that when their subjects were anticipating pain relief, activity spiked in the more evolutionarily advanced prefrontal cortex, a region in
the front of the brain that is central to generating expectations, and in a section of the midbrain that is key to the release of opioids.
Agalliu also found that Th17 cells induced by strep opened the BBB only in certain spots: Since strep enters the body through the nose, it made sense that he saw the BBB was pierced near the olfactory bulb, the structure in
the front of the brain that processes odors.
The prefrontal cortex, an area at
the front of the brain, is involved in decision making and in controlling social behavior, among other tasks.
«Literally within a tenth of a second before you move your eyes, there is this incredible flash of network activity in
the front of the brain, and then the eyes move,» Schroeder says.
In addition, the brain areas that are known to be active when a person is committing something to memory — including a region in
the front of the brain called the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex — were suppressed on those trials in which the participants had to inhibit their responses strongly.
Subsequently, a sustained depolarization (relative to a reference electrode) develops over
the front of the brain, in particular in infants 12 months or older.
But other regions in
the front of his brain were much more active than the matching regions in the brains of the control group.
What's more, some of the most effective treatments for tinnitus appear to work by altering the behavior of
the front of the brain.
Early on, neurons in
the front of the brain (the prefrontal cortex) are active.
As in their earlier studies of general intelligence and emotional intelligence, the researchers found that regions of the frontal cortex (at
the front of the brain), the parietal cortex (further back near the top of the head) and the temporal lobes (on the sides of the head behind the ears) are all implicated in social problem solving.
When the volunteers suspected they were being lied to, activity levels rose in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DPFC), an area near
the front of the brain.
Located mainly in
the front of the brain, these regions exert a top - down influence on our conscious and unconscious thought, directing the brain's activity toward important goals.
But the new study found that the overexcitable neurons in
the front of their brains connect to and stimulate the neurons dumping the dopamine.
A second observation in people with schizophrenia is hyperactive neurons, which are also in
the front of the brain, a region that is involved in planning and decision - making.
They discovered that a region, called Cluster - N, at
the front of the brain was only active at night.
This image of an Alzheimer's patient's neural network — viewed from above, with
the front of the brain on the right — was created using diffusion tensor imaging, a technique that tracks water molecules moving along the length of the axons that link neuron to neuron.
BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in
the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta, researchers reported this year.
BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in
the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta.
Looking at brain activity, fNIRS revealed that boys showed increased activation with proficiency in
the front of the brain when they heard a correct sentence, while girls showed more at the back.
In this image — created through high - angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI)--
the front of the brain is on the right.
She and her colleagues found that people born face - blind have a smaller - than - normal bundle of nerve fibers linking the facial fusiform area to other regions toward
the front of the brain.
The children in the normal - development group displayed heightened activity in a number of brain regions, but two spots were of particular interest: the movement center (associated with changing facial expressions) and an area near
the front of the brain that includes the mirror - neuron system.
The OIST researchers cultured neurons from the cortex, located at
the front of the brain and a structure under it known as the striatum in separate compartments.
As we struggle to resist, inhibitory cognitive control networks involving
the front of the brain activate to squelch the impulse by tempering its appeal.
The team also noticed that firing patterns in
the front of the brain would be echoed in the back and sides.
In particular, a patch of neurons near
the front of the brain — a region called the medial orbitofrontal cortex — was active in the desire - impaired men but quiet in the normal ones.
This area, buried in
the front of the brain, is often called the brain's «conflict detector,» coming online when you are confronted with contradictory information, or even simply when you feel pain.
Alien hand seems to be caused by damage to a small area at
the front of the brain, suggesting that this region has a role in motor control.
To circumvent that problem, the researchers generated their new mouse so that ankyrin - G would only be lost in the pyramidal neurons found in
the front of the brain (the region believed to be most relevant for psychiatric disorders) in adolescent and adult mice.
In these creatures, traces of nerves appear to connect
the front of the brain to eyelike features and a hard plate, called the anterior sclerite, Ortega - Hernández reports May 7 in Current Biology.
And when FGF8 was injected into the rear of the brain, a second set of whisker barrelsgroups of cells found toward
the front of the brain that monitor whats happening to the whiskersshowed up toward the back.
Their most recent study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on June 20, looked at the connections of a part of the brain that is responsible for motor learning, the dorsal striatum, which is stationed near
the front of the brain.
For example, two distant hubs in the circuit, one at
the front of the brain (right circle) and the other at the rear side (left circle), showed varying amounts of synchrony in their brain waves, depending on what object a monkey was holding in memory.
They scrutinized circuits connecting the amygdala to the cingulate, an emotion - dampening center near
the front of the brain.
It usually hits in
the front of the brain, behind the forehead.