Sentences with phrase «magnetic activity at»

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The plastic egg magnetic science activity was a hit at home and at preschool!

A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis: brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

At the start of the study, all the participants did some Web searching while the scientists monitored their brain activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The sun's magnetic activity waxes and wanes roughly every 11 years, generating more dark sunspots at the peak of the cycle and fewer at the trough.

Individuals whose brains exhibit the at - risk signatures may be more likely to benefit from strategies that boost the brain's dorsolateral prefrontal activity, including cognitive behavioral therapy, working memory training, or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

In a bid to determine the regions of the brain concerned with these memorization difficulties, the researchers conducted magneto - encephalographs (a technique that allows very weak magnetic fields produced by neural activity to be measured at the surface of the head) on a group of amusics while they were performing a musical task.

At times of maximum solar activity, the magnetic ferment represented by sunspots frequently releases and leaps across space to Earth — to foment magnetic storms that disrupt communications networks and light the polar skies with auroral displays.

In the scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.

The day of the failed eruption, scientists pointed the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket — a sub-orbital rocket that flies for some 20 minutes, collecting data from above Earth's atmosphere for about five of those minutes — at an area of intense, complex magnetic activity on the Sun, called an active region.

Many of those storms originate at sunspots, dark blemishes on the sun's surface that are wellsprings of magnetic activity.

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.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

The study, published online July 29 in Cerebral Cortex, used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to examine children's brain activity at rest and during two tasks: solving simple math problems and looking at pictures of different faces.

At roughly 100 minutes after each treatment, the team began testing brain activity in participants at rest with their eyes closed, first using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called arterial spin labeling to follow blood flow changes in the braiAt roughly 100 minutes after each treatment, the team began testing brain activity in participants at rest with their eyes closed, first using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called arterial spin labeling to follow blood flow changes in the braiat rest with their eyes closed, first using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called arterial spin labeling to follow blood flow changes in the brain.

Sunspots, markers of magnetic activity on the sun's surface, provide a visual proxy for the cycle's evolution; they appear in droves at maximum and all but disappear at minimum.

Michael Greicius at Stanford University in California and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain activity associated with different mental states.

Then, at Harvard, he conducted experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to search for hard evidence of psi activity in the brain.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and techniques like ultrasound are being refined and repurposed to look at ever - smaller structures within the brain, and to follow brain activity and metabolism as it happens, the scientists said.

Piven and his collaborators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at brain activity in 59 baby sibs as they slept in the scanner.

Sunspots, markers of magnetic activity on the sun's surface, provide a visual proxy to mark the cycle's evolution, appearing in droves at maximum and all but disappearing at minimum.

During solar maximum, when sunspots are numerous and solar activity is at its peak, magnetic lines surround the sun.

In the current study, Brass and co-author Patrick Haggard, a professor of cognitive neuroscience and psychology at University College London, asked 15 subjects to push a button on a keyboard while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity; participants were instructed to occasionally skip the action.

To examine the link, researchers measured blood glucose levels and hunger, while also using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe brain activity during the crucial four - hour period after a meal, which influences eating behavior at the next meal.

Sadee contacted Alessandro Bertolino at the University of Bari in Italy, who was doing research that involved monitoring the brain activity of 117 volunteers with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during memory tests.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

Nicole Prause at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her team wondered whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-- applying a magnetic field to the brain to boost or lower the activity in a particular spot — could alter someone's sex drive.

This period covers three of the Sun's 11 - year activity cycles, which see fluctuations in the rate at which energetic particles are created by the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field and its hot, highly charged outer layers.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a NASA spacecraft launched in February to monitor the sun's magnetic activity, should be able to spot any objects at the upper end of the size range.

Level of sustained entorhinal activity at study correlates with subsequent cued - recall performance: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study with high acquisition rate.

Researchers at the Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have utilized the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities available in Beckman's Biomedical Imaging Center to measure the moment - to - moment variability in brain activity, more specifically in the blood oxygenation level - dependent (BOLD) signal.

The sun's behavior, its activity and its magnetic rotation are always changing, which makes the instruments invented at NSO and the data painstakingly compiled over decades a valuable resource and a check on future, more advanced instruments.

In addition, I will also present the first results of my postdoctoral stay at the University of Western Ontario: a search for H - alpha emission in ultra-cool dwarfs to seek a correlation between magnetic activity and photometric variability.

Scientists used data about the magnetic activity and X-ray emissions of stars to determine that WASP - 18 is about 100 times less active than it should be at this stage in its life cycle.

The research activity of our group «Interstellar Medium: star and planet formation» is focused in the early stages of the star and planet formation process, with special emphasis on the role of magnetic field at different scales.

This is a way of analyzing fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which measure activity in the brain by looking at changes in blood oxygen.

Moreover, researchers can already interpret a person's neural activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at a rudimentary level1 — that the individual is thinking of a person, say, rather than a car.

To test for a correlation between magnetic activity and photometric variability, we searched for H$ \ alpha $ emission among eight L3 $ - $ T2 ultra-cool dwarfs with extensive previous photometric monitoring, some of which are known to be variable at 3.6 $ \ mu $ m or 4.5 $ \ mu $ m.

The proper placement of retrograde tracer into Cluster N was proven by co-localization of tracer and the neuronal activity marker ZENK, since Cluster N is the only part of the forebrain displaying movement - independent ZENK activity in night - migratory birds sitting still or performing magnetic compass orientation under dim light conditions at night [13].

Research is beginning to show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.

In fact, a study by researchers at Stanford University, who used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activity of people, found that the part of our brain involved with paying attention is engaged when we listen to certain types of music.

We find during the past 11,400 years the Sun spent only of the order of 10 % of the time at a similar high level of magnetic activity and almost all of the earlier high - activity periods were shorter than the present episode.»

Comparison of TSI with other activity parameters indicates that only the open solar magnetic field,, observed from satellites at 1 AU show a similar long - term behaviour.

Muon densities increase more in higher latitudes at times of weak solar magnetic activity, which is why volcanic activity in the higher latitudes will be affected more by this process.

vukcevic says: October 20, 2012 at 2:47 am Only place where magnetic needle would accurately follow (long term solar activity) You are confusing the issues [shows how dangerous a little knowledge can be].

Recent experimental work at CERN supports an hypothesis that solar magnetic activity throttles formation of cloud water droplet condensation sites and this then explains the correlation between solar magnetic minima with cold epochs.

«Valentina Zharkova, professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in the U.K., warned that the Earth could be heading for another ice age in 15 years due to a drop in solar magnetic activity by 60 percent.

In a separate study, Richard Altrock, manager of the Air Force's coronal research program at NSO's facility in New Mexico, examined the sun's corona and observed a slowdown of the magnetic activity's usual «rush to the poles.»

Researchers at the University of Cambridge used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to compare the brain activity of 19 people with compulsive sexual behaviors to that of the same number of healthy subjects while both groups watched pornography.