Sentences with phrase «made brain shaped»

Not exact matches

Hartshorne intrepidly draws numerous conclusions of this sort, stoutly maintaining that his theory makes for more comprehensive sense than the traditional view that holds that, when one sees an external object, he really sees the object and not just a certain shape in his own brain.

Each can be made a center of attention and recognized by sense - objects (muscle and brain tissue have color, shape, etc.).

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

You want to make a giant brain shaped chocolate?

Some unique building toys that you may not be familiar with are Brain Flakes and Squigz, which are made of unconventionally shaped pieces that encourage problem - solving.

The brain perceives and shapes the pace of time; it also makes decisions about how best to use that time, a process an economist might call optimization, except in the currency of time.

It makes it possible to wrap them around hemispherical shapes or soft biological tissues, like the brain or heart.

Although not nearly as well studied as neurons, astrocytes — named for their star - shaped appearance — make up one - third to one - half of all the cells in the brain and are increasingly being found to be critical for neuronal function.

But shape theory, in Bookstein's hands, is mathematics made flesh: It not only sheds new light on mental illness, it may change a doctor's diagnosis or his decision on where to cut a living brain.

«Decision - making is shaped by individual differences in the functional brain connectome.»

Making up 70 billion of the nearly 86 billion neurons in the human brain, these relatively simple cells are tightly packed into the cerebellum, a broccoli - shaped structure tucked under the back of our brain.

But these data don't directly measure brain shape, making it difficult to untangle precisely how quickly or slowly human brains became as round as they are today, says paleoanthropologist Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich.

As your brain is shaped by the choices you make, there is room for chance and noise — room for you to be unique.

The findings will «open the door to further investigations into the biological basis of intelligence, exploring how the brain, genes, nutrition and the environment together interact to shape the development and continued evolution of the remarkable intellectual abilities that make us human,» Barbey said.

As bad as being peeved feels, it's actually a protective response to what usually starts out as fear or pain, explains Veronica Rojas, MD, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Mindfulness Forum of Ridgewood in Ridgewood, N.J.. Before you can even make sense of a threat, your amygdala, the almond - shaped emotion center of the brain, triggers a release of adrenaline and other stress hormones.

DHA is active in the membrane of ion channels in the brain, making it easier for them to change shape and transmit electrical signals, and is involved in serotonin metabolism (reduced serotonin production and / or activity is a key factor in depression).

Reading, she writes, «could only come about because of the human brain's extraordinary ability to make new connections among its existing structures, a process made possible by the brain's ability to be shaped by experience.»

Social and emotional learning makes great sense, Davidson argues, because of neuroplasticity — the fact that repeated experiences shape the brain.

The amygdala (actually we have a pair of them) is an almond - shaped structure that acts as the brain's panic button: it made your caveman ancestors duck when someone swung a club near their heads, and jump back when they stepped near a snake.

But in some spots on the planet, it's not just the hormones and brain receptors making the world a place for lovers: Mother nature shaped these spots for romantics.

The Soulsborne series is renowned for its difficulty, and while average players like myself have You Died etched into the Miyazaki - shaped corners of our brains, this lot make it look easy.

Cut cute heroes into the right shapes to solve physics puzzles in a game that will make you laugh out loud while you flex your brain muscles.

The title of this series makes reference to the action of introversion or returning to one's self — the shapes resembling both the interiors of the female body as well as fossils, symbols of primeval life and the reptilian brain.

The shape of the resume is the very first thing to make an impact upon the reader, as it is the first thing the brain processes before having the time to read the text or recognize the name or appreciate the paper.