Sentences with phrase «large brains using»

It is unclear if Neandertals grew their large brains using a similar strategy, the researchers said.

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We use a far larger percentage of our brain, however, we use a small fraction of it consciously.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers of the finite experiences of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self of memories of our earthly passage, which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance of our personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.

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.

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

Seattle's largest network, PEPS.org, uses Zero to Five as part of the weekly curriculum, in a «brain development break.»

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Most of my large family — I'm the oldest of seven kids — accepts the fact that I use cloth diapers, but one of my sisters in particular, just can't wrap her brain around the idea of putting poopy diapers in the washing machine.

Yanik's lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood - brain barrier — a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs or other large molecules to enter the brain through the bloodstream.

It may also ultimately inform the methods that will be used for producing large quantities of cells for therapeutic use and other applications such as the high - throughput screening of chemicals for brain toxicity or therapeutics.

Longo says this is not surprising, since these are the digits with the highest tactile sensitivity, and larger regions of the brain are devoted to their use.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

This and subsequent similar experiments used guinea pig brains because they're larger and easier to work with than mouse brains.

The largest trial to date of «brain - training» computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

Scientists have long suspected that humans evolved large brains because our hominid ancestors had to outwit and elude predators, learn to use fire, and develop complex social structures.

«You can basically eavesdrop on each millimeter of the human brain in real - time using 300 - 400 sensors, recording simultaneously from a large mantle of the human brain.»

Using them as a kind of grid reference, he slices the brain in two with what resembles a large bread knife.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

The only abnormality is a slightly larger left brain, the seat of most of what happens when we use language.

Using data from a large public brain tumor database called REMBRANDT, the researchers confirmed that patients with lower levels of SND1 survived longer than those with elevated SND1 expression.

«These are areas of the brain where large populations of neurons are firing often, and this uses up a lot of energy, so it's not surprising that we see an altered metabolic profile with a massive expansion of blood vessels.»

Boyden and colleagues first described the underlying technique, known as expansion microscopy (ExM), last year, when they used it to image proteins inside large samples of brain tissue.

Dr. Miller enumerated two factors that set this model apart from others: its use of a large data set based on the National Trauma Data Bank, and its use of isolated brain injury only, again which the NTDB enables because it is such a large data set.

The reasoning is that larger brains allowed hominins to start making stone tools and that the use of these tools reduced the need to have such large chewing teeth.

This study used cerebral perfusion imaging with single photon emission computed emission tomography (SPECT) to examine the brains of the largest group of retired and current NFL players investigated to date, a total of 161 individuals with an average age of 52.

Consequently, these grafts may be used to deliver very large drugs, including proteins, which would otherwise be blocked by the blood - brain barrier.

But recent studies by other authors found that hominins had larger brains before chewing teeth became smaller, and they made and used stone tools when brains were still quite small, which challenges this relationship.

In the most basic sense, the brain manages noise by using large numbers of neurons whenever it can.

His team is now using the new model to investigate how social factors may influence evolution of large brain size.

In spite of their pint - sized brains, Homo floresiensis was able to make fire and use stone tools to kill and butcher large animals.

Wolves, with their larger brains, are more prone to flashes of insight, allowing them to solve problems on their own; dogs, with smaller brains, excel at using humans to help them.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.

Using a fast code helps speed up thought, but to a large extent the brain — like a telegraph network — really depends on efficient pathways.

For patients who have experienced a large stroke that cuts off blood supply to a large part of the brain, the use of standardized medical management protocol and surgery to decompress swelling can improve life expectancy, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a recent study.

«Nonetheless, we think that we can use optogenetics to put together a larger picture of connectivity between other types of neurons in other areas of the brain.»

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

«If we can use a small number of brains to predict what large numbers of people who read the New York Times are doing, it means that similar things are happening across people,» Scholz says.

The BrainGate research was praised for «enabling a new understanding of human brain function and the development of a novel, fully - implanted platform neurotechnology capable of wirelessly transmitting large numbers of neural signals from multiple types of sensors for use in Brain Computer Interface, epilepsy monitoring, and neuromodulation applications.&rbrain function and the development of a novel, fully - implanted platform neurotechnology capable of wirelessly transmitting large numbers of neural signals from multiple types of sensors for use in Brain Computer Interface, epilepsy monitoring, and neuromodulation applications.&rBrain Computer Interface, epilepsy monitoring, and neuromodulation applications.»

UC San Francisco researchers have identified cells» unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large - scale cell surveys can be done much more efficiently and cheaply than was previously thought possible.

But, he says we're still a long way from using brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer's in the population at large.

Here, we use a much larger sample of primates, more recent phylogenies, and updated statistical techniques, to show that brain size is predicted by diet, rather than multiple measures of sociality, after controlling for body size and phylogeny.

An example of work in this testbed is to quantify large - scale cortical dynamics during learning and neuroplasticity induction, as well as changes in cortical dynamics that occur when users directly control brain stimulation using their thoughts.

In order to image large tissue such as cleared rodent brain, the Ultramicroscope was developed using a stereomicroscope to capture large field - of - views (6).

Objective: The primary objective of the present study was to estimate how large a sample size would be needed for future clinical trials for AD - modifying treatments in Japan using atrophy measures of the brain as a surrogate biomarker.

These measures have been used to characterize large - scale networks in the human brain (Bressler and Menon, 2010; Sporns, 2011), and have paved the way for increasingly sophisticated investigations of brain connectivity in ASD (Kennedy and Adolphs, 2012).

People carrying the HD mutation would be studied for a defined period of time (36 months), using a large array of measurements including brain scans, specialized motor measurements and examination by a physician.

NeuralBytes develops large - scale neurocomputational models that can be used by scientists to answer questions about the brain.

In our latest publication, a large - scale discovery assay was used to identify factors that increases NMNAT2 levels in the brain.