Sentences with phrase «images of brains of»

By taking images of brains of those who routinely engage in contemplative practices, neuroscientist Richard Davison discovered that «their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance.

The scanner relies on a powerful magnet and radio waves to create detailed images of the brains of Crone's young volunteers.

[Jamie L. Hanson et al, Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala] Researchers took images of the brains of 12 - year - olds who had suffered either physical abuse or neglect or had grown up poor.

«When studying magnetic resonance images of the brains of patients suffering from CRPS, we noticed that the choroid plexus was nearly one - fifth larger in patients than in healthy control subjects,» says Postdoctoral Researcher Guangyu Zhou from Aalto University Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE), who analysed the images.

After 30 days, they compared ultrasound images of the brains of both groups.

Not exact matches

Our brains are very good at remembering spacial information, so if you can imagine yourself walking through a place you know well, you can deposit the images of cards you are memorizing along the way.

We are drawn to images as they can represent a message quickly and simply without our brains having to read reels of text.

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.

According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of time looking at both images developed the disease.

The fMRI images of the subjects» brains revealed that, when exhausted, they were terrible at distinguishing friendly faces from threatening ones.

Results showed those who were especially anxious fared better after viewing the images (i.e., showed a milder response in the amygdala, the part of the brain that helps process emotions), just as the images helped those who weren't even paying attention to them.

The condition mainly affects the retina, a layer at the back of the eyeball that picks up light and sends that info to the brain, where it's translated into images.

The study subjects were then asked how many of the pairings they recalled 30 minutes after the memorization session, compared to after sleeping through the night with the distressing images still percolating in their brains.

Plus, brain scans indicate that people who lost weight and kept it off for nine months reacted differently when shown images of high - calorie foods than before they lost the weight.

Meanwhile, a number of efforts are under way to augment or replace eyes with artificial devices that capture images and relay them to the brain.

What did the brain images of the 122 study participants show?

More sensors connected to the child's head allow the algorithms to create an image of brain waves that doctors can then study.

This ad shows the iPad 2 user looking at stock options, investment portfolios, and even images of the brain... a far cry from someone taking video of their family, or rocking out to a killer iTunes library.

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.

God's image IS our brain, & if we could shrink ourselves to the size of a brain cell & go inside & take a look around, I imagine it would look a LOT like the universe does to us from Earth now.

I had this image and concept flash across the barren landscape of my brain last night just before I entered unconsciousness.

I am not surprised at all at the neurological research showing that the same parts of the the brain, «light up.,» whether it is an image of a Mac or a religious deity.

For an unknown length of time, my very brain was flooded with a torrent of images, terrible to behold.

Granted this, however, the panpsychist generalizing in Whiteheadian fashion from the case in question must argue either that both mental and physical properties (Or the two kinds of spatiotemporal extensiveness enjoyed by mental images and physical brains respectively) are real and that all entities have both kinds, or that mental properties are real but physical ones only apparent.

Yet the central - state materialist replies that images are not really spatial entities of any kind at all except perhaps in appearance — they are the way in which certain brain processes appear to the material system which we call a person and whose brain it is.

It is said for example that thoughts do not occur at a place in the body at all, not even in the brain; more importantly it is pointed out that the spatial properties of images do not coincide with spatial properties of any part of the brain and that therefore the images must be in some sort of mental space.

Given the modernists» assumptions, the latter can be accounted for as products of our senses and brain: the neural resources of the blob generate image, sensation, and emotion, and these are consistent with reason understood as pure mechanism.

The much more complicated integration in large molecules of neurons and of neurons in an active brain would lead to still more complicated systemic relations and not only to protopsychic ones, but also to real psychic phenomena, to sensations and mental images.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Same parts of the brain will light up on an FMRI «image.»

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.

When someone writes an article he / she keeps the image of a user in his / her brain that how a user can know it.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

Such action makes the brain produce sensations and mental images, and out of the sensations and images the higher forms of thought and knowledge in their turn are framed.

Yet Jesus persists from his right - brain, heart vocabulary, with fertile images of wind, spirit and expansive love.

Rather, it is represented such that if some cells in the brain are removed this does not destroy just a part of the image but reduces the clarity of the image as a whole.

cba@66: By chance (or natural genius), you have positioned the two mirrors so they create a rudimentary hologram of the fire, which your brain interprets as a 3 - D image.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

It makes it very difficult to be interested in your partner because what's happening in the brain is the brain is getting very stimulated and while it's being stimulated sexually, what happens also is there's a release of chemicals, neurochemicals that cause the person to feel attached to the person or the image that they're relating to.

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.

I am actually slowly unsubscribing to blogs by moms who project this perfect image because, quite frankly, it is EXHAUSTING and DEMORALIZING, and a bunch of other words my brain is too fried to find.

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.

This is the area of the brain that regulates the stress response to emotional visual images.

There is also a crazy amount of brain stimulation happening as your baby is learning to recognize the images, words, and sounds all around them.

Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

The images above, which weren't part of that study, show the brain in a resting state.

Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the brain, called a deep neural network.

Helped by the recent development of fiber - optic - bundle - coupled laser - scanning confocal fluorescence imaging (Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy — CLE), which allowed the scientists to image blood flow more deeply in the brain than ever before.

Even the brain scan of a person looking at a single disgusting image was enough to predict their political tendencies, but more work will be needed to know exactly what these brain scan differences mean.