Sentences with phrase «images of brain activity»

In a study published in the journal Neuron, co-first authors Christian Burgess, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow; Rohan Ramesh, a graduate student, and colleagues in Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satiety.

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Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

The brain activity for these two tasks is sufficiently differentfor the researchers to be able easily to distinguish the responses in the functional - magnetic - resonance (fMRI) images of the patients» brains.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

In the full - term infants, brain activity was detected in the visual areas of the brain even when the image didn't appear as expected, a sign of this top - down sensory prediction.

Women who are not anorexic or bulimic had brain activity similar to that of women with eating disorders when they viewed images of overweight women.

The monkeys» eye - focusing movements, coupled with scans of brain activity, revealed that they were «seeing» images shown in the «blind» part of their visual field, but only if their LGN was intact (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09179).

When the same image was processed subconsciously, the researchers found that the patterns of brain activity were much more variable.

For example, knowing the precise brain activity involved could shed light on disorders in which body awareness is disrupted, such as schizophrenia, and help with the development of prosthetic limbs that are more easily incorporated into body image.

Brain activity during hallucinations in a person with schizophrenia (Image: Wellcome department of cognitive neurology / Science Photo Library)

When Lidstone's team analyzed the patients» brain activity, the PET images showed dopamine flooding the synapses in the crucial motor control region of their brains, just as surely as from a dose of medication.

Two patients tried different thoughts or images until the pattern of activity in their brain could reliably move the cursor.

When sleep - deprived and waiting in suspenseful anticipation for a neutral or disturbing image to appear, activity in the emotional brain centers of all the participants soared, especially in the amygdala and the insular cortex.

In a new study, neuroscientists connected a network of electrodes to the hearing centers of 15 patients» brains (image above) and recorded the brain activity while they listened to words like «jazz» or «Waldo.»

Sinha and her colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain activity in people exposed to stimuli ranging from highly stressful — images of mutilated bodies or someone pointing a gun — to neutral, such as a chair, table or lamp.

It measures blood flow to the brain by sending light signals from sensors mounted in a 3 - pound headcap, then producing images of blood oxygen changes — representing brain activity — by recording the absorption of light at different colors.

«With further development, the new microendoscope could be used to image neuron activity in previously inaccessible parts of the brain such as the visual cortex of primate animal models,» said Ohayon.

Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair that can image the activity of neurons in the brains of living mice.

The scanner captured images of the dogs» brain activity while they listened to nearly 200 dog and human sounds, including whines, cries, playful barks, and laughs.

In one investigation, reported in 2012 in Social Neuroscience, women were asked to look at pictures of smiling infants while in a functional MRI, which images brain activity.

For this study, 10 subjects with Alzheimer's underwent PET following the injection of three radiotracers: fluorine - 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F - 18 FDG), which images regional metabolic activity; carbon - 11 Pittsburgh compound B (C - 11 PiB), which has an affinity for amyloid plaques; and F - 18 AV - 1451, an emerging imaging agent that binds to tau in the brain.

By significantly increasing the speed of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have been able to image rapidly fluctuating brain activity during human thought.

In the hippocampus, a major component responsible for memory, neural activity, synapse formation and expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were reduced in these mice (Image 2).

«With our setup, we could image the mice a couple of times a week and each time find the same cells that we previously recorded brain activity from,» Stuber said.

New computer program uses brain activity to draw images of airplanes, leopards, and stained - glass windows

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

At Week 1, the fMRI scans in the fasting state revealed that people taking the drug showed decreased brain activity in response to images of highly desirable foods in the attention - related parietal and visual cortices.

The team then used an fMRI scanner to detect the brain activity elicited by images of the satellites.

They all had to perform several tasks while the researchers analyzed their brain activity: describing an image with a sentence and listening to phrases and lists of words.

Then Raine, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, had his own brain imaged — and his, too, had that extra blob of activity in the thalamus.

In an open letter last month to President Vladimir Putin, more than 150 RAS researchers asserted that the reforms are eroding science's image in Russia; they warned of disastrous consequences for the nation, including a brain drain of young scientists and an «upsurge in activities of bureaucrats and impostors.»

When neuroscientists scanned the brains of obese individuals viewing images of desirable food, they found greater activity in brain regions rich in dopamine receptors.

To find out exactly where in the brain pareidolia arises, Kang and colleagues scanned the activity of people's brains while showing them images of light and dark pixels arranged randomly.

This technique can capture an image of the working brain in just a couple of seconds and locate areas of activity down to a millimeter or so — about one - twentieth of an inch.

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.

The results showed that images of food, especially high - calorie food, can generate spikes in brain activity, but those neural responses are lower in the evening.

Eerily, a facelike classification image emerged from the collective brain activity of people experiencing pareidolia.

The researchers teamed up with BYU neuroscientist Brock Kirwan to use functional MRI to monitor the brain activity of study subjects while they viewed images of food.

When we move our eyes in REM sleep, according to the study, specific brain regions show sudden surges of activity that resemble the pattern that occurs when we are introduced to a new image — suggesting that eye movements during REM sleep are responsible for resetting our dream «snapshots.»

PRECISION images of real faces have been recreated by monitoring the activity of certain cells in the brains of macaque monkeys as they looked at photographs of people.

«To examine the connectivity from any one site to other brain regions, we used a data base of functional MRI images and a technique that enables you to see correlations in spontaneous brain activity.»

Additional skepticism arises from knowing that fMRI measures blood - flow change, not neuronal activity, that the colors are artificially added in order to see the blood - flow differences and that those images are not any one person's brain but are instead a statistical compilation of many subjects» brains in the experiment.

As director of the Roanoke Brain Study, Montague monitors brain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doeBrain Study, Montague monitors brain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doebrain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doebrain, how well it works, and what happens when it doesn't.

They then studied images of the rats» brains to see how naltrexone affected brain activity.

The team from Kyoto University and ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Computational Neuroscience Laboratories discovered that brain activity patters can be decoded, or translated, into signal patterns of simulated neurons in the DNN when both are shown the same image.

The signals can be localized in the brain and translated into digital images that portray neural activity level as a ratio of oxygenated to de-oxygenated hemoglobin, the iron - containing pigment in red blood cells.

In order to study the brain activity associated with bias, the researchers compared brain images of the participants who preferred the «professional» excerpts with images of participants who preferred the «student» excerpts.

Comparison of brain images of the participants before the psilocybin treatment and a day after revealed brain activity changes that were associated with clear and lasting depression symptom reductions.

The 45 exercise bout not only produced lower brain responses to the food images, but also resulted in an increase in the total physical activity that same day, for the rest of the day regards of the condition of the woman.

In these brain scans, activity in the right hemisphere is displayed on the left side of the image,...