Sentences with phrase «involve different parts of our brain»

Stories involved different parts of our brain, so they're easier to remember and less threatening than cold, hard facts.

This experience mimicked the brain's reward - based learning response — as opposed to an avoidance - learning response, an experience that involves different parts of the brain that together comprise the «anterior insula.»

Does that involve a different part of the brain from your sculptural work, or do you see the different processes as essentially continuous?

It's about helping clients develop greater capacity for desire, a desire that come from a different basis than early in their relationship, and involves a different part of your brain.

Not exact matches

Video games tell stories that allow the player to interact, which is more involved and engages different parts of the brain in ways that reading or watching tv doesn't always do.

This engages a whole different part of the brain, has a relaxing effect, and also involves some physical precision which requires concentration around your muscles.

They found that many different parts of the brain were involved in activity in the third of these states.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

There are also experimental techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which allow us to understand which parts of the brain are most active when we are involved in different cognitive activities.

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

Study two involved measuring patterns of brain activity in a different group of participants (non-musicians) who took part in a word generation task and a music perception task.

Through this work, researchers were able to pinpoint the different parts of the brain involved in creating the two types of short - term memories.

Unfortunately, he says, the fMRIs failed to reveal the inhibitory circuitry involved; to try to get to the bottom of that, he plans to repeat the study using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves placing many electrodes on a skintight rubber cap placed over a subject's head that allows researchers to observe communication between different parts of the brain.

«Your associations with certain music involve many different parts of the brain, and they're very strong.

Recordings from neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in fear learning and implicated in anxiety disorders, showed that individual amygdala neurons responding to the tone changed their preference («tuning») for tones of different pitch following fear learning.

As part of his training he became involved in neuroscience research; in particular he was part of group that was using new imaging techniques to see how different parts of the brain worked together in real time.

Using genetic tools to turn on and off different parts of the brain, the scientists were able to identify specific brain circuits and neurons (brain cells) involved in the food coma experience.

When you are very young you have different brain waves, and the part of your brain that is involved in learning is constantly «on».

Parts of the brain involved in reading, math, music, and personal relationships are different — larger or smaller, more or less active — in every child.