Sentences with phrase «human memory performance»

One potential reason for this discrepancy is that the laboratory tests used in animal models of the disease do not resemble the clinical assessments given to patients, and thus are not predictive of human memory performance.

Not exact matches

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

ELECTRICAL shocks that simulate the patterns seen in the brain when you are learning have enhanced human memory for the first time, boosting performance on tests by up to 30 per cent.

In addition, we have provided recommendations for selecting performance measures and sample sizes to make these assays sensitive to learning and memory deficits in humans with MCI - AD and in mouse models.

Here, we examined the extent to which performance in the Morris water maze — the most frequently used behavioral assay of spatial learning and memory in rodents — translates to humans.

We therefore hypothesized that theta - burst microstimulation, targeted to brain regions containing afferent fibers to the hippocampus, would improve episodic memory performance in humans.

In physics, the «observer» is independent entity that works in every human being on the same principles: it allows him to be aware of their thinking processes, self - performances, memories, in short, to be aware of the functioning of the human mind.

Performance cars are all about indulging the senses, and smell is the most powerful sense humans have for evoking memories.

Corral creates sculptures, installations, and performances that address and respond to the endless violation of human rights and historical memory, which continue to be threatened, eroded, and erased over time.

This event will offer an immersive performance art experience with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

HABEAS CORPUS, commissioned by the Armory, expands on Anderson's fusing of storytelling and technology, creating an installation and performance piece that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

Through recent installations that include filmed performances, where projections of the «ghosted» human body wash over sculptural elements, the artist attempts to create an alienating / disorienting illusory effect that reflects an increasing loss of the corporeal gesture in the every day, the infinite attempt at calibrating the body to technology, as well as the entrapment of the human psyche within it; manipulating and playing with memory, space and time.

Galindo's performances illuminate a number of human rights issues, including corruption, racism, and gender - based crimes, to incite collective memory and action.

Finley brings humorous improvisation and wit to each of her performances, allowing her to alleviate and add tension to ideas surrounding loss, suffering, memory, poetics, and the human experience.

Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism Affects Human Memory - Related Hippocampal Activity and Predicts Memory Performance