Sentences with phrase «higher order functions»

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From this Stoeger argues that «special divine action» is really a matter of the «higher laws of nature» as they actually function, rather than as we understand them, subsuming, modifying and marshalling the «lower orders of nature»; those of physics, chemistry and biology.

This band must have been from the Temple guard, an entirely Jewish constabulary force which protected the Temple and enforced its ritualistic regulations and functioned under orders from the high priest.

In order for the over-all values of a relationship to be served by this decision, such a couple must not only build a high level of mutuality between themselves but also use their relationship for life - serving; functions in society.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

In non-REM sleep higher order brain functions (the thinking parts of our brain) shut down, while in REM sleep the brain is actively processing information acquired during waking hours.

«And for the moment, I am concluding for my own peace of mind that the honourable gentleman was thinking of a high functioning intelligent robot and therefore for the moment, I will not call him to order for the use of the word.

Although the physical basis of consciousness is one of the deepest enigmas in biology, the best guess is that it arises from coordinated activity between the cortex and the thalamus, a switching station for sensory and motor signals, and within the cortex, which handles higher - order cognitive functions.

Neuroscientists, medical scientists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians in Europe are working hand in hand to simulate the entire human brain on high - performance computers of the next generation in order to better understand how it functions.

Papagiannakis et al. performed metabolite and cell - cycle measurements in single cells to show that the cell cycle is a higher - order function, which emerges from the collective synchrony between an autonomous metabolic oscillator, a biomass formation oscillator (early cell cycle), and a biomass segregation oscillator (late cell cycle).

A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself multiple times in order to fit inside the skull, the cortex is the seat of higher functions.

Researchers have identified eight distinct neural subnetworks that together form the connectivity infrastructure of the mammalian cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher - order functions such as cognition, emotion and consciousness.

fMRI measures changes in blood oxygenation, which were previously thought to be too slow to detect the subtle neuronal activity associated with higher order brain functions.

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

«Even though we would call playing chess a higher - order cognitive process, it is made up of lower - order functions,» says Grafman.

In contrast, females with autism had smaller callosal regions connecting to the anterior frontal cortex, which is involved in higher order «executive function» such as planning.

«What we found was that training higher - order cognitive skills can have a positive impact on untrained key executive functions as well as lower - level, but also important, processes such as straightforward memory, which is used to remember details.

A hyperactive locus ceruleus could alter behavior, says Valentino, because this region sends signals to the cerebral cortex, the brain area responsible for thinking, memory, and other high - order cognitive functions.

«One of the most intractable challenges in biology is to discover the higher - order structure of DNA in the nucleus and how is this linked to its functions in the genome,» says Salk Associate Professor Clodagh O'Shea, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar and senior author of the paper.

The company's head of AI research Yann LeCun and research engineer Soumith Chintala have described their ideal system as being «capable of not only text and image recognition but also higher - order functions like reasoning, prediction and planning, rivaling the way humans think and behave.»

The cerebral cortex is the brain's CEO; it regulates higher - order functions such as motor learning and attention through its connections to brain structures such as the dorsal striatum, which is historically divided into just four regions.

In a pioneering series of anatomical studies carried out over the past three decades, Rakic has revealed how neurons in the developing cerebral cortex are generated and how they assemble themselves into highly ordered, distinctively layered, and densely interconnected circuits that direct higher order sensory and motor functions.

And scientists depend on these high resolution images of molecules in order to study their function.

Hobson and McCarley suggested that during sleep, activity in some of the lower levels of the brain that are primarily responsible for basic biological processes are then interpreted by the parts of the brain responsible for higher - order functions such as thinking and processing information.

Although this doesn't mean that Neanderthals weren't as intelligent as humans, the brains of Homo sapiens developed to support higher - order functions, such as creativity and communication.

The IMPC builds on the efforts of IKMC to produce knockout mice and carry out high - throughput phenotyping of each line in order to determine the function of every gene in the mouse genome.

The editors embrace interdisciplinary strategies that integrate biophysical, cellular, developmental, and molecular approaches with a systems approach to sensory, motor, and higher - order cognitive functions.

In patient 1, visual function recovery was associated with functional magnetic resonance imaging activity in surviving peri-lesional and bilateral higher - order visual areas.

They «connect with each other, forming circuits, and once they're connected, they can synchronize their activity,» Arlotta said, potentially mimicking «higher - order functions of the human brain.»

In fetuses, neurons from deep in the brain migrate and connect to neurons in the cortex, forming circuitry that supports thought, judgment, planning, and other higher - order functions.

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain tissue, and is responsible for many «higher - order» functions like language and information processing.

The researchers succeeded by overcoming some of the technical challenges presented in the fabrication of the platinum - zinc nanoparticles with an ordered lattice structure, which function best at the small sizes in which the chemically reactive surface area is highest in proportion to the particle volume.

Classic SMLM requires high overexpression of target proteins in order to achieve sufficient density to fulfill the Nyquist criterion, which may affect cellular functions and morphologies.

High school and college students sometimes use Adderall, a type of stimulant medication, without a doctor's order because they believe it will boost their mental function and school performance.

It is also very high in Vitamin B - complex, which is needed in order to help the body function correctly, and several antioxidants including lycopene, selenium, beta carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E.

Neurons that function in cognition and higher order cognitive processes are included in gray matter.

Students were also given a verbal fluency test, in which higher - order executive functions, such as simultaneous processing, initiation and systematic retrieval of knowledge were measured.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

The «health function» is just one of the higher order terms that serves an an excellent — but incomplete — proxy.

The more ones diet leans to the WFPB side the more likely one is to provide his / her body with what it needs to function at the highest order for the longest period of time.

As an electrolyte, potassium is a positive charged ion that must maintain a certain concentration (about 30 times higher inside than outside your cells) in order to carry out its functions, which includes interacting with sodium to help control nerve impulse transmission, muscle contraction and heart function.

This means they many need to take very high doses of vitamin D in order to function properly.

Ketogenic diets focus on high amounts of fat in the diet, including saturated fats, along with very restricted amounts of carbohydrates, in order to create ketones that bypass insulin resistance in brain cells and energize their metabolic functions in lieu of glucose.

I think it's all right for some women to be all right with higher fat but for others to need carbs in order to have proper reproductive and hormone function

All of our physiological systems must be given the opportunity and the right environment to function optimally in order to heal to our highest potential.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

In order to be one of the very best dating apps around, we offer a distinct range of services on a high - functioning platform.

What my field of neurology has called «executive functions» for over 100 years, are the highest cognitive processes — they are sometimes called higher order thinking or critical thinking.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

And though the residents» «home school» is a well - designed, high - functioning inner city school, they have structured mini-internships in some of Chicago's most challenging neighborhood schools in order to prepare them for the teaching and leadership obstacles they will face once they begin teaching.