Sentences with phrase «frontal lobes responsible»

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As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

The SLF connects the brain's frontal lobe — responsible for decision - making, emotion and understanding consequences of actions — with the parietal lobe, which processes language and sensory input.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

The team concluded that seniors may have trouble recruiting the temporal lobes and therefore rely on the frontal lobes — responsible for general cognition — to help out.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

«The frontal lobes are responsible for our abilities to solve problems, organize and plan, and utilize good judgments.

Alcohol lowers inhibitions by acting on the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for controlling the impulses that prevent us from giving in to urges to harm others or ourselves.

A new study indicates that citicoline supplements can help boost energy and efficiency in your frontal lobe — the region responsible for decision - making, reasoning, and working memory.

Caffeine impacts the primary motor cortex found in the frontal lobe, which is a part of the brain responsible for muscle activation.

Earlier research also correlated fitness levels with activation in the brain's frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for executive function.

UC Berkeley did a study that showed increased activity in the amygdala (the reptilian part of our brain) and decreased activity in the insular cortex and frontal lobe (responsible for willpower).

In the world of evolutionary biological psychology, it is a well known fact that the frontal lobe of our brain is the newest area of the brain and also the part that is responsible for giving us the ability of complex reason and planning.

At the same time your dopamine levels are spiking, meth is also reducing blood flow to your frontal lobes, hobbling that section of your brain that helps you make good and responsible decisions.

The frontal lobe is a sensitive part of the brain, and is also responsible for your personality.

The frontal lobe is responsible for executive functions such as abstract thinking, problem solving, behavioral inhibition and language processing.

Lets go back to the cavemen days before we developed the fully - functioning frontal lobes in our brain that are responsible for problem solving, memory, judgement and impulse control, amongst other things.

For example, he describes studies (e.g., De Bellis et al., 1999) with results that show how abused children tend to have underdeveloped frontal lobes, including in areas responsible for exercising judgment and behavior regulation.