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These participants also underwent MRI scans which collected images of their brain while they learned and remembered names that were associated with pictures of unfamiliar faces.

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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.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

When the resulting anaglyphs are viewed through red - and - cyan glasses, the left eye sees one image while the right eye sees the other, and the brain interprets the disparity as depth of field.

The team asked the patients to categorize a variety of images as fast as possible while their electrodes recorded the firing of nearly 1,500 single brain cells across the group in real time.

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.»

While examining colorful 3 - D brain images, Stanford psychology graduate student Jason Yeatman spotted a part of the brain he'd never learned about in class.

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.

In this way, areas of the brain responsible for the motor system were active when a subject translated a term previously learned through gesture, while areas of the visual system were active in the case of words learned with the help of images.

In their next study, the researchers said they plan to show images to depressed patients of objects or people the patients dislike while their brains are scanned, Feng said.

While each participant was shown a large number of images of celebrities, animals, objects and landmark buildings, electrodes recorded the brain cells» firings.

Her team scanned 12 people's brains while they looked at hundreds of images of noses, eyes, mouths and other facial features and recorded which bits of the brain became active.

The amygdala is a region of the brain known to act as a threat detector and activates when an individual is exposed to images of fear or sadness, while the dmPFC is involved in cognitive processes (e.g., perception, emotions, reasoning) associated with social interactions.

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.

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.

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.

He goes on to explain that the brain subconsciously perceives the observer's own current body position while looking at the pictures, and that this influences their assessment of the image.

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.

Researchers performed brain scans of volunteers while they viewed images, some sexually suggestive, and also asked their sexual behaviors within the past year.

Well, a blood test at the beginning of the study measured participants» estrogen and testosterone levels, then, individuals were exposed to images that could potentially evoke positive, negative, or neutral emotions while undergoing MRI brain scans.

Del Toro seems to view plot and character development as simply a clothesline on which to hang a series of brain - searing images, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing (plenty of great directors have been stylists above all else), it means he keeps getting undermined by his scripts» odd tendency to never give him free rein to indulge in style over substance.

A Bright Bunch: These images, from a 2005 study in Cognitive Brain Research, show horizontal slices in the brains of adolescent boys, as measured while they were doing a spatial math problem.

These images of brain scans were taken while the subjects performed mathematical calculations involving serial addition.

Thanks to articles and documentaries such as Waiting for «Superman,» most of us have an image seared into our brain of a slew of know - nothing teachers, removed from the classroom after years of sleeping through class, sitting in state - funded «rubber rooms» while continuing to draw hefty salaries.

Using an MRI, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine, the scientists trained 13 dogs of different breeds to enter the chamber and lie down without moving, while images recorded the dogs» brain activity.