Sentences with phrase «how brain connectivity»

The resulting blueprint will also reveal how brain connectivity varies from person to person.

Not exact matches

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

In the latest phase of the project, children and older people are being enrolled so that scientists can learn how connectivity changes as the brain waxes in youth and wanes in old age.

They found that cognitive performance and white matter connectivity in the brain predicted how best we can learn to play the two types of games.

«This is the first study that has examined how the patterns of intrinsic brain connectivity change with a cognitive load in children with autism,» Menon said.

Dresler and his team are still analyzing their brain scan data to learn more about the differences in brain connectivity patterns they found and how they affect memory.

To begin to understand how the connectivity patterns in the brains of memory athletes influence memory performance, Dresler and colleagues looked at the 25 connections that most differentiate memory athletes from others.

Barbey's group is further studying how individual differences in functional brain connectivity are shaped by learning and experience.

In a new study of how anesthetic drugs affect the brain, researchers suggest that our experience of reality is the product of a delicate balance of connectivity between neurons — too much or too little and consciousness slips away.

The images showed features such as the size of each brain region, the level of connectivity between neurons, and how much white matter was insulating the neurons.

To study how music preferences might affect functional brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which depicts brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

However, most prior work has focused on only a small number of brain regions, leaving a gap in our understanding of how multiple brain regions communicate with one another through networks, called functional connectivity, in persons with dyslexia.

However, it remains unknown whether, and if so, how intellectual performance is related to the overall connectivity network architecture of our brain.

Dr. Martin directs a productive research laboratory focused on understanding how experience changes connectivity in the brain to store long - term memories.

Neuroimaging of the spinal cord will be used to assess how the combination therapy can strengthen connectivity of the pathway between the brain and injured spinal cord and how the improved connectivity explains gains in walking and balance function.

More generally, our study demonstrates how quantitative multimodal analysis of anatomy and connectivity allows us to better characterize the heterogeneous development and maturation of brain networks.

Her research project at the GRID Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), investigated how learning to use a BCI affects connectivity in the brain beyond the BCI implantation site.

There's been a lot of discussion in recent years about how 24/7 connectivity and omnipresent devices are rewiring our brains and shortening our attention spans, decimating our ability to connect with the world, ourselves, and each other in a mindful way.

A new study shows that reading a book improves brain connectivity in the hub that influences the sense of touch, scientifically proving how books change us.