Sentences with phrase «how human brains»

Vogelzang, who runs the food design department at Design Academy Eindhoven, explained how human brains rely on vision to gauge how much food we've eaten:

In her popular science book The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press: March 2016), Herculano - Houzel explains how human brains grew so large, even larger than the brains of gorillas and orangutans, whose bodies are larger than ours.

What's more, the ferrets reveal a possible mechanism for how human brains have grown over evolutionary time.

In the early 2000s, Richards and Lillicrap took a course with Hinton at the University of Toronto and were convinced deep learning models were capturing «something real» about how human brains work.

Neurala aims to mimic how human brains recognise objects, accumulate experience and make judgements, Motter says.

Studying mouse communication and behavior can produce great insight into brain mechanics and systems and possibly give researchers valuable insight into how human brains work.

«How human brains do language: One system, two channels.»

I don't know how the human brain works but it's almost magical: when you read enough or talk to enough experts, when you have enough inputs, new ideas start appearing.»

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.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

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 learns.

Their latest offering, the Brody WorkLounge was the outgrowth of an extensive research study conducted by Steelcase on how the human brain functions.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

If you think it can't you have no knowledge of how the human brain works.

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

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

13 — 14 Over the past three years IBM scientists have developed a robot called Watson that can defeat human contestants at Jeopardy! Watson's ability to decode puzzling questions depends on intricate computer algorithms that mimic how the human brain processes language and information.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

«We are interested in how a human brain constructs over time to become the adult brain,» says Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, whose work focuses on identifying sensitive periods of brain development from childhood into adolescence.

This prenatal work is part of a growing body of research to better understand how the human brain develops across its lifespan, from fetus to old age.

Harnessed By Mark Changizi Researchers routinely theorize about how the human brain evolved its remarkable knack for language.

In a broader sense, neuroscientists want to understand how the human brain creates and perceives language, and entrainment has emerged as an important mechanism.

Vincent Cheung, along with Angela Friederici, Stefan Koelsch, and Lars Meyer, has been investigating non-local dependencies in music and trying to determine how the human brain processes them.

It's an example of how the human brain is able to make sense of really complex and highly variable and noisy input and attach it to categories to have meaning.

He hopes to reconstruct the detailed story of how the human brain grew and changed as the result of natural selection, thereby creating the thing that makes us each unique — the human mind.

What we would like to learn by studying language is how the human brain learns something that is that complicated without any direct evidence.

A PATIENT who can not read fear on other people's faces has given researchers a valuable clue to how the human brain processes emotions.

Raman has spent a decade learning how the human brain and olfactory system operate to process scent and odor signals.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

Exactly how the human brain works to record and remember an image is the subject of much debate and speculation.

The surprising details of this process, observed in the brains of fruit flies, could shed light on how the human brain develops — and what happens when problems arise.

Indeed, Oliva says; «Human cognitive and computational neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge about how the human brain is able to see, hear, feel, think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»

Recent results obtained by researchers from Turku PET Centre and Aalto University have revealed how the human brain's opioid system modulates responses to other people's pain.

This is how the human brain works, and even though we process some tasks millions of times more slowly than does a computer, the amount of information our brains can handle is vast.

Assumptions about fabricating an artificial brain ignore what little we know about how the human brain thinks, feels and acts, and we can not view it as a slower version of a computer.

Lynch and Granger base their characterization on our current understanding of how the human brain works, describing in detail its physiology and structure and comparing it with the brains of other primates.

Scientists have discovered exactly how the human brain gets its crinkly, wrinkly appearance in utero

Dr Knox concluded: «From a situation where 80 % of our understanding of neuroscience was derived from tests on US psychology undergraduates, we're now showing how the human brain is not just amazingly complex in general, but also highly variable across the human population.»

These researchers sought not only to develop artificial intelligence, but also to understand how the human brain learns, says Richards.

Understanding how people process the complex information contained in scents — or memories of smells — offers a window into how the human brain functions.

Gow's method of investigating how the human brain perceives and distinguishes among elements of spoken language combines electroencephalography (EEG), which records electrical brain activity; magnetoencephalograohy (MEG), which the measures subtle magnetic fields produced by brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals brain structure.

Some regions are slightly bigger on one side than on the other, and these differences translate into imbalances in how the human brain works.

«They will use it to test theories of how the human brain works in health and in disease.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

Experiments like this may help scientists understand how the human brain is put together, Miguel Nicolelis told Science News.

Although the original impetus of the work was to study human brain disease and development, says Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Christopher Walsh, the results also shed light on how the human brain expanded during the course of evolution.

At Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, scientists are working to find clues about how the human brain processes memories.

A new study carried out by scientists at Kent State University revealed how the human brain is more similar to that of a primate's...

A neuroscientist from New York has offered a new framework that could explain how the human brain formulates predictions.