Sentences with phrase «in back of the brain»

Most visual processing occurs in the back of the brain, which is why we see «stars» when we receive a blow to the back of the head.

Ever try to remember something and you know you know it and it's right there in the back of your brain but you just can't grab it?

:) But the brownies got stuck in the back of my brain and I went back to my search, and ended up finding these: easy to make, calling for just a bit of chocolate, yielding a big 20x30cm full of brownies with that crackly, shiny top.

... Once you have tasted that, and what that's like, it puts this thing in the back of your brain, you want to get back in and playing in even bigger stages.»

Every writer has stories in the back of their brain they plan to write eventually if they can find a gap between deadlines, or if an editor didn't stonewall the pitch, or if a hook would finally present itself.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

Furthermore, the communication between the PFC and cortical regions in the back of the brain was also disrupted.

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

The new pathway projects to the visual cortex (V1 for short) in the back of the brain, where the features of the object are analyzed (for color, orientation of edges, movement, and so on).

Researchers have tracked dyscalculia to a fold in the back of the brain known as the intraparietal sulcus, or IPS.

Impulses from the retinas, for instance, have to travel up the optic nerve to the thalamus, which relays the signals to the visual cortex in the back of the brain.

I'm sticking that tidbit of info in the back of my brain for seed buying time.

But somewhere in the back of my brain, I worry that we're going to end up with another unreasonably poor effort.

Hawthorne, California — If the 2015 Tesla Model S P85D is just some kind of harmless EV, how come we're accelerating so hard that the blood is pooling up in the back of our brain and this tunnel ahead of us is glowing as if we have some kind of lightspeed thing going on?

But I recall at the time of writing I did have a couple of vague ideas in the back of my brain about subsequent books in the Elemental Riders «world» — Earth Riders, anyone?

While I was busy building up my debts in school through school loans, credit card debt and irresponsible spending — I always had an uneasy feeling in the back of my brain that told me I was doing things I was going to regret later.

Somewhere in the back of my brain I've heard of them but that's the extent of my knowledge.

Cough Suppressants or «Anti Tussives» are those medicines used to suppress or reduce cough by different means, such as by acting on the «cough center» in back of the brain.

Still, when reading the article, I had one question burrowing in the back of my brain: Who would have thought that coffee would be loved so much down under (far from the coffee - growing regions of the world)?

If you've been hearing the call of the road or feeling in the back of your brain the itch to take your dream trip, now is the time to pack your bags and travel.

But somewhere in the back of my brain, I worry that we're going to end up with another unreasonably poor effort.

My advice to you guys would be if you know that there is something holding you back, you have that little itch in the back of your brain that says I'm not doing this because of this reason.

Because there's always this niggling fear in the back of my brain that I might be wrong about it being a common weirdness.

Not exact matches

Many parents of kids who struggle in school have wished that they could somehow tinker with their kid's brain to fix whatever was holding them back and making them feel so miserable.

The first is actually creativity, because it's during REM sleep and dreaming specifically when the brain starts to collide all of the information that you've recently learned together with all of this back catalog of autobiographical information that you've got stored up in the brain.

Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk backed the company Neuralink with the intent of further developing brain - machine interfaces, a technology that would merge humans with computers and could, in theory, make knowledge downloadable.

The research showed that increasing numbers of «turns» in back - and - forth conversations were critical to language development in children, even affecting brain physiology.

David F. Arons, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society, said in a statement that the country should be «doubling down on biomedical research funding, not pulling back,» according to Bloomberg.

But that I'd remember, you know, sometimes something will stick in your brain, you know, from a long time back and you kind of go eh, that'll work perfect for this.

Neuroscience tells us that our brains still run an operating system from back in the caveman days, and fear is a big part of it.

There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.

I'm in the Laggard Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.

I am back from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, and my brain is still spinning from the dozens of meetings and stimulating conversations.

Once you are embalmed, meaning your blood has been drained, rigor mortis has set in, and your brain and other organs have been deprived of oxygen for 48 hours you ain't getting back up off that table!

They say that smell is most powerful sense for bringing back memories — something about the olfactory bulb in the brain's limbic system and how it forever links the scent of freshly - cut lavender to the security of your grandmother's guest room.

What I find disappointing is that grown adults can see that after centuries of evolution, in which we have grown taller on the average, our brains have enlarged, and technology has altered our everyday way of life... can sit back and say stupid stuff like that.

Terry, You raise a point that has been gnawing at the back of my brain, but hadn't clicked with me until I just read it in your comment.

Sorry about the Bevis and Butthead moment that I'm having here, but, when he uses sensuality, root and deeply rooted, in the same sentence, I wonder what might really going on in the back of Santorum's dirty little brain.

And almost any of our young psychologists will tell you that only a few belated scholastics, or possibly some crack - brained theosophist or psychical researcher, can be found holding back, and still talking as if mental phenomena might exist as independent variables in the world.

If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

Once in a great while, I pretend I am a young intellectual back in seminary and retrieve words like Sinaiticus or Alexandrinus or Bodmer papyrus out of the cobwebs of my brain, but usually I skim past them.

I swear, if my family has the audacity to give me a Christian funeral when I die I will rise back up from the grave and eat their brains Have a party for me, and a few straight shots of Pendleton in my honor.

«Over time, the effect on the reward centre in the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts go back for another line of cocaine.»

Possessed of a high - powered brain in an unusually versatile body, they were set apart most radically by their ability to stand back and ask what it all means.

I spent a lot of the past couple years delving into the silence, watching the chaos in my brain, going far back into memories of my childhood, seeking to understand what and where I lost myself.

When I think back on these times (and, curiously, I do remember snippets from these parties, though little else from that age remains in the dusty cabinets of my brain), I laugh and cringe and feel ashamed.

Every time I use a pin from one of my boards, I feel like I'm not wasting my time surfing Pinterest, even though somewhere in the back of my little brain I know it's a time - wasting black hole.

A few months ago, sourdough was back in the forefront of my brain, and as coincidence would have it, a post about the basics of sourdough bread landed in my inbox.

Before the brain rights it, the eye sees a tree upside down in the same way it appears on the glass back of the large format field camera I use.