Sentences with phrase «in brain scanners»

And then all you do is go through this emotional set of reactions, which are studied in brain scanners.

More recently, we showed that when we place people in brain scanners and ask them to do nothing, their brains are spontaneously activated in a highly organized manner during this resting state, which we later called a default mode of brain function.

To study empathy, the researchers recruited 66 adults to sit in a brain scanner while listening to 24 true short stories of human distress.

THE idea of putting a dead salmon in a brain scanner would be funny if it were not so serious.

«When we're putting people in a brain scanner — particularly an MRI scanner, which is quite noisy, quite confined, quite claustrophobic — it's important to know that people are going to be able to tolerate that environment,» Carhart - Harris notes.

In a study reported in the June 2016 issue of Cerebral Cortex, Heini Saarimäki of Aalto University in Finland and her colleagues observed volunteers in a brain scanner who were being prompted to recall memories they associated with words drawn from six emotional categories or to reflect on a movie clip selected to provoke certain emotions.

In 2001 a group led by neuroscientist Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered that this network was more active when people were simply sitting idly in a brain scanner than when they were asked to perform a particular task.

After placing test subjects in a brain scanner, Moulton showed them images they had never seen before.

As the study was conducted in a brain scanner at the LIFE&BRAIN Center in Bonn, researchers could also show that products labeled with this emblem led to increased activity in specific brain regions: For example, they observed increased activation in regions important for reward processing as well as frontal regions that process abstract product attributes (e.g. whether or not a product carries a Fair Trade logo, and the meaning of such a label).

In the brain scanner, using video glasses, the test subjects viewed photos, for example of human faces.

All of the experiments were performed in the brain scanner at the Life & Brain Center at the University of Bonn.

Unprecedented in the setup was that the test subjects freely viewed a feature - length, 105 - minute film in its entirety in the brain scanner.

She had volunteers lie still in a brain scanner and read Austen.

«While sitting in the brain scanner, the babies listened to a series of music and speech sounds, each played out in a rhythm that was occasionally disrupted,» Zhao said.

Not exact matches

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzleIn a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzlein a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Eyes are nothing more than a medium, such as a scanner, a medium for a processor to recognize matter already programmed in data base, in human case, the brain.

Our brains have highly sophisticated scanners zooming in and spotting the most subtle signals on in someone's face to identify whether they are trustworthy or not.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

Among its five new scanners, CUBRIC boasts Europe's most powerful microstructural brain scanner, the Siemens 3 Tesla Connectome magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a specially adapted MRI scanner of which there is only one other in the world, located at Harvard University in the United States.

He placed anaesthetised sea lions in an MRI scanner to image their brains, and found that the hippocampus of sick animals was half the size of that in healthy ones.

The UM team analyzed hundreds of brain scans of participants, ranging in age from 6 to 86, who were all in a «resting state,» which means they were not engaged in any particular task while in the fMRI scanner.

Playing tennis and moving around your house were chosen as they activate different areas of the brain, making it easy to distinguish between the two in a functional MRI scanner.

An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memoBrain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memobrain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.

Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.

She placed herself in an fMRI brain scanner and noted her neural response when she spoke about a vivid memory (two boys fighting over her at her high school prom).

Subjects completed the experiment while in a PET scanner, allowing Petrovic to track their brain activity as they experienced both pain and pain relief.

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which detects changes in blood - flow patterns, the scientists monitored what was happening inside subjects» brains.

«In both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the studIn both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the studin the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the study.

Radioactivity in the brain was measured with the PET scanner in three conditions: after a 60 - min aerobic moderate - intensity exercise session, after a high - intensity interval training (HIIT) session, and after rest.

Once the rule was learned participants were invited to perform the task in an MRI scanner, allowing the researchers to see which brain areas were recruited.

To find out, Iballa Burunat at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and her colleagues used an fMRI scanner to look at the brains of 18 musicians and 18 people who have never played professionally.

Leading the work, Dr Nikos Evangelou, said: «We already knew that large research MRI scanners could detect the proportion of lesions with a vein in the brain's white matter, but these scanners are not clinically available.

«To see the brain in action, test subjects need to lie down on a plank inside a scanner or be wired up to a PET machine, which hardly mimics the real world,» says Brizendine.

«We can now observe people relaxing in the scanner and be confident that what we see is there all the time,» says Cole, who feared that his team might find that the brain reorganizes itself for every task.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.

A new way of using MRI scanners to look for evidence of multiple sclerosis in the brain has been successfully tested by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

So we wanted to find out whether a single brain scan in an NHS hospital scanner could also be effective in distinguishing between patients known to have MS and patients known to have non-MS brain lesions.

So the team trained 11 dogs to lie motionless in a functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scanner, while wearing headphones to deliver the sounds and protect their ears.

First, the thick section of brain rotated in the high - energy X-ray beam, which was transformed into an image analogous to the output of a CT scanner.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

He placed anaesthetised sea lions in an MRI scanner to image their brains, and found that the hippocampus of sick animals was half the size...

When fMRI brain scanners were invented in the early 1990s, scientists and the general public were seduced by the idea of watching the brain at work.

In the early 1990s, Richard Haier, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine, tracked cerebral glucose metabolic rates in the brains of Tetris players using PET scannerIn the early 1990s, Richard Haier, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine, tracked cerebral glucose metabolic rates in the brains of Tetris players using PET scannerin the brains of Tetris players using PET scanners.

In a quest to investigate the link between mind and brain, our Emerging Technology columnist inserts himself into a five - ton magnetic resonance imaging scanner and submits to neurofeedback sessions, in which he learns to play video games by altering his own brain waveIn a quest to investigate the link between mind and brain, our Emerging Technology columnist inserts himself into a five - ton magnetic resonance imaging scanner and submits to neurofeedback sessions, in which he learns to play video games by altering his own brain wavein which he learns to play video games by altering his own brain waves.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end of the study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.

Both electrical mapping with the implanted electrodes and the more conventional functional whole - brain imaging in a magnetic scanner identified a cluster of regions in the FFA in both cortical hemispheres of Blackwell's brain that responded strongly to faces.

But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.

The participants performed tests while their brain activity was measured in an MRI scanner.

What brain imaging has made possible is being able to take live human beings — we call them normal human adults; in my lab they're MIT undergrads — put them in a scanner, and get them to do all kinds of things.