Sentences with phrase «how brain network»

«We have the opportunity to understand how brain network development relates to a variety of outcomes, including cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior.»

Pinpointing the importance of the abnormal delivery of BDNF has shed considerable insight into how the brain network develops.

Studies of earworms can help to understand how brain networks, which are involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts, behave in different people, the authors said.

By developing computational models that are constrained by experimental evidence (neuroimaging, single - cell recording, anatomical, lesion studies), we can generate hypothesis about how brain networks orchestrate behavior.

Not exact matches

Or how about the brains behind one of today's largest social networks, Mark Zuckerberg?

Computers designed to automatically spot objects in images are based on neural networks, software that loosely imitates how the human brain learns.

Neural networks are essentially software designed to loosely mimic how the human brain learns, explained Christopher Shallue, a Google senior AI software engineer.

How computers learn to see That technique is called convolutional neural networking, and takes its name from both a mathematical operation called a convolution, and inspiration from how the human brain learHow computers learn to see That technique is called convolutional neural networking, and takes its name from both a mathematical operation called a convolution, and inspiration from how the human brain learhow the human brain learns.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Take a human body — the brain and the neural networks are more powerful than any computer system ever built, what about body r frame — skeleton, see how it is structured and well ordered.

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Understanding this intricate network and how the human brain interacts with it is becoming our door to happiness and health.

The genes in the network are thought to be involved in how brain cells communicate with each other.

Using a high - resolution analysis of how individual neurons and their connected brain networks processed this touch information, designed by neurocomputational scientist Alberto Mazzoni and physics scientist Anton Spanne, the groups got an unexpected insight into the brain representations of the external world experienced through touch.

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

And with more information on how the brain forms its network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that network is injured or malformed.

«Our findings provide novel evidence that MUFAs are related to a very specific brain network, the dorsal attentional network, and how optimal this network is functionally organized,» Barbey said.

Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The group's work is particularly significant because they showed for the first time how the importance of individual nodes within functional brain networks fluctuates on timescales spanning tens of seconds up to days.

Ultimately, Gazzaley hopes to understand the networking between areas of the brain that governs this top - down phenomenon and learn how that networking changes with aging (see Gazzaley Perspective).

This led the researchers to propose that the brain has an intrinsic network that reconfigures itself when we switch from resting to performing a task, and they hypothesized the reconfiguration of this intrinsic network relates to how well we perform a given task.

To study brain network reconfiguration, the Rutgers scientists compared participants» resting - state networks to the networks active during language, reasoning, and memory tasks and computed how similar each task - related network was to the resting - state network.

If this treatment becomes a standard practice, he says, it will reveal a lot about how different brain networks become reactivated after severe head trauma.

Dyer, who recently joined the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, also studies how the brain computes via its signaling networks, and this imaging technique could someday open new windows onto how they work.

«Our future research will examine how networks can be improved or enhanced, even after a traumatic brain injury, with cognitive intervention.»

Their work could lead to the development of new tools to help Tononi untangle what happens in the brain during sleep and dreaming, while Van Veen hopes to apply the study's new methods to understand how the brain uses networks to encode short - term memory.

Previous research has already identified components of the brain's social network, revealing the inferior parietal lobule seems to encode familiarity and social distance, and that the medial prefrontal cortex encodes how socially relevant other people are to us.

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

«We still don't understand how the brain works» and artificial neural networks, Schürmann says, are likely to be an important part of that understanding when it emerges.

Beaty and colleagues reanalyzed brain data from previous studies and found that, by simply measuring the strength of connections in these peoples» brain networks, they could estimate how original their ideas would be.

Moreover, these neural network models can predict to some extent how a neuron deep in the brain will respond to any image.»

«By combining in vivo multiphoton microscopy and in vivo electrophysiology, our lab is better able to visualize how cells move and change over time in the living brain and explain how changes in these glial cells alter the visually evoked neural network activity,» says Kozai.

They further suggest that a network's ability to change its preferred frequency may play a role in the way how information is at times processed differently in the brain.

«A better understanding of how these long - range, inter-connected networks in the brain operate might help to develop therapies that re-establish this specific cortical communication,» says Helmchen.

Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.

«The brain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research DivBrain Imaging Research Division

Analytic tools developed in the last few years offer the promise of answers at the level of how these processes impact brain network communication,» Diwadkar said.

But the full account of how human thought emerges from a biological brain, a network of billions of neurons communicating via tiny electrical impulses, still ranks among the great scientific mysteries.

Exactly how individual proteins interact to form the complex networks of the brain still remains as a mystery that is just beginning to unravel.

There are new books covering the nature and theory of consciousness; how men think; the different ways in which brain lesions may affect thinking; neural networks; and Zen and neural networks.

Now that neuroscientists have a reasonable idea of how that territory is divided, we find ourselves looking at a strange assortment of brain networks involved with smell, hunger, pain, goal setting, temperature, prediction, and hundreds of other tasks.

This study is really the first of its kind and provides a big step forwards in our understanding of how training can alter the functioning of brain networks.

Reviewing neuroscience literature from more than 200 journals, the authors give an account of how the flow of thoughts is grounded in the interaction between different brain networks — a framework that promises to guide future research in neuroscience.

In addition to a number of other studies planned or in process, the team is interested in exploring further how the brain stem is connected functionally to other areas of the brain, «because usually the brain doesn't work from just one area; it's a network of areas that all work together,» Stephenson said.

NIBIB - funded researchers at the University of Washington have pioneered an approach to image functional activity in the brains of individual fetuses, allowing a better look at how functional networks within the brain develop.

Beth Stevens and her network of collaborators are showing how immune cells sculpt connections in the brain

Fetal brains are in default mode for much of the time, but it is not very well known how this network develops.

«The complementary evidence of electrocorticography, fMRI, and brain stimulation will make it possible to study not only the effects of brain stimulation on the local neural networks that process face information, but also how they broadcast their information towards other regions in the brain.»

Next, Bertolero said, he and his co-authors plan to look into why evolution built a brain with distinct networks and connector hubs, precisely how connector hubs integrate and coordinate, and what happens when they are damaged by a stroke, for example.