Sentences with phrase «gyrus plays»

Cognitive neuroscientist Juan R. Vidal of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France applauds the authors» use of multiple methods and says the study is the first to prove that the fusiform gyrus plays a causal role in face perception.

These results provide evidence that NMDA receptors in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus play a crucial role in the process of pattern separation.

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In the 1960s, researchers showed that adult rats continually produce neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus — an area that plays an important role in acquiring new memories.

The middle and inferior temporal gyri, for example, also play roles in memory and sensory integration and have been shown to be involved in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

The researchers also unexpectedly found that the Bax gene, known for its role in apoptosis, appears to also play a role in synaptic pruning in the dentate gyrus.

The fusiform gyrus is thought to play a role in recognising faces, something adults are better at than children.

The fusiform gyrus is thought to play a role in recognising faces, something that adults are better at doing than children.

In addition, strong associations between normalized path length and full - scale IQ were found in left superior temporal and inferior frontal gyrus, regions that are known to play a key role in language processing (Fig. 3).