Sentences with phrase «lobe which»

I was wildly searching for distractions when I started to count (and rub my adrenal gland under my ear lobe which often seemed to help disperse the excess adrenaline causing the attack).

The same thing likely applies to those areas at the bottom of the frontal lobe which seem to have acquired the ability to maintain mental checklists and monitor progress on an agenda.

The high - profile camshaft lobe which normally contacts the secondary exhaust rocker arm alone during low - RPM engine operation is able to move both exhaust rocker arms together which are locked as a unit.

Shaft in an engine block or cylinder head that includes a series of lobes which regulates opening and closing the intake and exhaust valves, allowing the engine to «breathe.»

Not exact matches

That makes sense because one of the first areas of the brain to be affected in dementia are the temporal lobes, which house semantic [word meaning] knowledge.»

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.

«What we found is there are two regions in the left superior temporal lobe, one which is situated more toward the center of the head, that carries information about the agent, the one doing an action.

In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

Inspiring leaders use less metabolic energy in the right temporal lobe and cingulate gyrus, which are associated with creativity and speech, among other functions.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

According to physics and physiology, we know that a train of light coming from the molecules in the tie strikes our eye and activates certain cells there which in turn relay this impact to the occipital lobe.

The Inca Inchi plant is a small one with small hermaphrodite flowers producing small pods (green at first and brown when ripe) which usually has 6 lobes.

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.

Executive skills come from a part of the brain called the frontal lobes, which is up here way behind your eyes and is actually the control switches for the brain in the sense that if we take conscious control of our thinking, our planning, controlling our own impulses, and basically behaving in socially acceptable ways, your frontal lobes are involved in all of those.

The frontal lobes --- which permit us to reflect, reason, and control our impulses --- don't begin to mature until children are around 5 - 6 years old (Eliot 2000).

The lobes are made of clusters of lobules which are made of clusters of alveoli.

The researchers found evidence for a «voice area» in the auditory cortex of these macaques: a discrete region of the anterior temporal lobe in which activity was greater for macaque vocalizations than for other sound categories.

The team's calculations show that this is caused by anticlockwise rotation in the plume, which creates a centrifugal force that throws the lobes outwards.

The TPJ, which is located where the temporal and parietal lobes meet, plays an important role in social functioning, particularly in our ability to understand situations from the perspectives of other people.

Unlike ray - finned fishes, which make up the majority of fish species today, the lobe - finned varieties evolved with bony limb - like fins, a handy adaptation (no pun intended).

«Our results suggest that aerobic exercise may have a positive effect on the medial temporal lobe memory system (which includes the entorhinal cortex) in healthy young adults.

A team of researchers from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether neural activity patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level of scents in the insect brain.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

He hopes they'll show that Künzler's seizures are in the left temporal lobe and far away from the Wernicke's area that is involved in language, which he can not remove.

The scientists zeroed in on the temporal lobe, which regulates visual perception and memory.

The disorder falls into two broad categories: generalized epilepsy, in which seizures begin simultaneously in all parts of the brain, and focal epilepsy, in which seizures begin in a particular region of the brain, such as the temporal lobe.

Essential to the growing brain, play stimulates development of the cerebellum, which coordinates movement, and the frontal lobe, which regulates decision - making and impulse control.

The case showed that the medial temporal lobes (MTL), which include the hippocampus, are crucial for making new memories.

Ferraro's team concludes that the pulsar's gravity and radiation have deformed the star and bloated it beyond its entire «Roche lobe,» a teardrop - shaped region of space within which matter is bound to the star.

First, he inflicted injuries in two parts of infant rats» brains: the frontal lobe, which controls motor function and the ability to plan and execute tasks, and the parietal lobe, which influences spatial functions.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

In contrast, visual information taken in by the eyes tends to flow from the occipital lobe — which makes up much of the brain's visual cortex — «up» to the parietal lobe.

After training, faster reaction times were associated with lower frontal lobe activity, which is consistent with the more energy - efficient neural activity found in younger adults.

The SLF connects the brain's frontal lobe — responsible for decision - making, emotion and understanding consequences of actions — with the parietal lobe, which processes language and sensory input.

As such, in a superfluid droplet, the rotation is evenly distributed in vortices, which allows the droplet to withstand stunningly large rotation speeds without forming lobes or disintegrating.

This caused massive destruction to various parts of his brain, but especially the temporal lobes and the hippocampal system, which is crucial for personal memories.

Beginning in the late 1990s, neuroimaging studies showed that a specific area of the parietal lobe — the IPS — is important for very basic numerical magnitude processing, such as deciding which of two numbers is larger.

This mapping pinpointed the origin of Owen's seizures in the left temporal lobe, enabling physicians to target the optimal location for placement of the NeuroPace RNS Neurostimulator, a titanium microprocessor measuring about one by two inches, which is connected to electrodes implanted at the site of seizure origin.

The team, which reported its findings online earlier this month in Palaeontology, found that the brain's optic lobes were particularly large; so were the cerebellum, which controls motor functions, and the olfactory region, where odors are processed.

Mindfulness meditation increased thickness in the prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes, both linked to attention control, while compassion - based meditation showed increases in the limbic system, which processes emotions, and the anterior insula, which helps bring emotions into conscious awareness.

Part of the frontal lobe ultimately calculates the willingness to pay in an area known as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, (vmPFC), which refers to the area's location.

In addition, regions within the temporal and parietal cortex, which support memory and attention, as well as brain structures within the occipital lobe, which process visual and spatial information, were engaged.

The lobes consist of the regions in which Earth's magnetic field lines are directly connected to the magnetic field carried by the solar wind.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

Falk noted extra convolutions in the frontal lobes, which are believed to be involved in thought experiments.

They have found that some areas in the brain's frontal lobes, which help keep emotions in check, are overactive, or too controlling.

The research, which emphasises the difference between functional sub-territories in perceiving emotions through vocal communication, shows that the more complex and precise the processes related to emotions are, the more the frontal lobe and its connections with other cerebral regions are solicited.

For example, mindfulness increased the thickness of the prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes, which are linked to attention control.

The latter projects to the visual cortex, and from there two other pathways emerge called «what» and «how,» which project into the temporal and parietal lobes, respectively.

While this was happening, the researchers measured the activity in two parts of the monkeys» brains, the parietal lobe and the frontal lobe, which is the next place neural signals are sent.