Sentences with phrase «images of the brain responding»
His primary tool is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can create images of the brain responding as the body is hurting.
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And out of the many thousands of images that our brains can recognize, he estimates that each neuron can respond to a few dozen.
Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.
More than a decade ago, Fried discovered that individual brain cells seem to respond when a subject views images of celebrities or other well - known people.
Unpopular peoples» brains, on the other hand, responded similarly to images of their peers regardless of those peers» social standing.
In a newly published study, exercise sciences professors and a neuroscientist at BYU used MRI to measure how people's brains respond to high - and low - calorie food images at different times of the day.
Author Alice Ely, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, had already studied how women's brains respond to images of fatty foods on an empty and full stomach and found that both their hunger status and dieting history did influence brain activation patterns.