Sentences with phrase «how different areas of the brain»

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.

Unknown damage Although researchers are still parsing out how different areas of the brain contribute to normal function, neuroscience has evolved a long way from the days of lobotomies to stave off seizures.

The results reveal how different areas of the brain work together to create specific mental states.

Not exact matches

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

«We have long wondered how the cerebral cortex can process and integrate separate information lines coming in from different brain structures, or from other areas of the cortex, and how it sorts out what information is relevant at any given moment,» says senior study investigator Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD.

Moreover, the researchers also found that the activity in different areas of the brain was unexpectedly related to how the information was remembered.

Studying how animals plan over these different timescales has been challenging, in large part because it requires many brain areas operating at once, and neuroscientists have lacked the tools to observe neural activity over broad swaths of the brain.

These different areas form, I believe, building - blocks that contribute to our understanding of how our remarkable nervous system makes us do all the things we enjoy - and sometimes those that we would prefer not to - and occasionally make wise decisions... something that our brains, however, could be better at [and where there is] room for further biological evolution.

But the new findings reveal how the two forces affect different areas of the brain during sleep deprivation.

The reason it takes children several years to learn how to write is because writing requires so many different areas of the brain to work simultaneously, enhancing development.