Sentences with phrase «many areas in the brain»

Dreams are not stored in your long term memory area in your brain.

Degeneracy doesn't imply deterioration, but instead redundancy as many areas in the brain handle the same or similar tasks.

Which happens to be the area in the brain that controls executive function and self regulation.

In this study, the researchers stimulated specific areas in the brains of mice and recorded the evoked brain activity.

Then we feed them to the areas in the brain that recognise patterns in music.

«Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: MRI study highlights how areas in the brain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.»

In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

The Utah team miniaturized electrocorticography electrodes — sensors developed in the 1960s to locate the seizure - causing areas in the brains of epileptics — and encased them in thin sheets of silicon.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

Better aerobic fitness however does not appear to impact hippocampal volume, another area in the brain responsible for memory.

This delicate structure is a single brain cell (neuron) from the hippocampus, the area in the brain that contributes to memory formation and recall and learning.

Pain and itch even activate similar sensory areas in the brain.

Newberg and D'Aquili also argue that activities often found in religious rituals — like repetitive chanting — activate (and deactivate) similar areas in the brain, a finding that helps explain some of the more puzzling out - of - body experience reports, like those of the airplane pilots suddenly floating outside their planes.

The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

One study of eight easily hypnotized individuals found that when they were simply asked to perceive a color, the color areas in the brain were activated — even if they were looking at a gray scale.

In contrast, if the dislike of lbif reflects its linguistic structure, then the syllable hierarchy is expected to engage traditional language areas in the brain.

«There are multiple areas in the brain that activate because there are a lot of processes that have to take place.»

And in transgenic pups whose optic nerves were surgically severed 4 days after birth, retinal axons grew around the gap, finding their way to the proper target areas in the brain.

Monkeys might not be known for their generosity, but when they do seem to act selflessly, a specific area in their brains keeps track of these kindnesses.

The technique has been instrumental for identifying which areas in the brain control functions such as vision, hearing, or touch.

A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased activity in an area in the brain critical for understanding if his / her movement was imitated by others.

Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.

The dentate gyrus is one of just two areas in the brain where new neurons are continuously formed in adults.

As Dr. Beshel explains: «The more general idea is that there are areas in the brain that might be specifically involved in saying: «This is great, I should really approach this.»

However, this increased activity also extended to the areas in the brain that represent the relevant associated position of the same object, despite the fact that the subject was not concentrating on it.

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

The study revealed that activations in several areas in the brain belonging to the auditory, limbic, and motor regions were activated by all musical pieces.

Connections coming from other areas in the brain tend to link to individual digits while connections that originate within the area tend to link to multiple digits,» said Roe.

Neuroscientists have taken this a step further by assuming that different areas in the brain are connected if they show synchronized variations while the brain is in a resting state.

When exposed to estrogen, an area in the brain's memory hub that is typically suppressed during such tasks instead activated in those with the uniquely human gene variant.

One study of eight easily hypnotized individuals found that when they were simply asked to perceive a color, color areas in the brain were activated — even if they were looking at a gray scale.

After learning about Penfield's experiments, the British author Aldous Huxley wrote: «Is there, one wonders, some area in the brain from which the probing electrode could elicit Blake's Cherubim...?»

His lab has subdivided the dorsal striatum so scientists can better predict problem areas in this brain structure and focus their research there.

Participants with worse insight scores had worse integration of these areas in the brain.

The visual areas in the brain measure these differences, and we experience the result as stereo — what we all have enjoyed as children playing with View - Master toys.

Researchers have now uncovered an area in the brain about the size of an almond in humans that wields powerful control over the body's aging process.

When compared to the control group, type 2 patients showed decreased integrity in the white matter of two different areas in the brain — the cingulum bundle, which is a fiber tract that connects regions in the default - mode network, and the uncinate fasciculus, which connects regions important for executive function and memory.

When a dimly flickering checkerboard pattern flashed in front of a patient's recently treated eye, an area in the brain responsible for vision lit up during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Reading is such a modern cultural invention that there is no specific area in the brain dedicated to it.

And these essentially are toxic proteins that clog up the signaling of the areas in the brain so that cells essentially start to dysfunction and eventually to die off.

Kreitzer is applying knowledge of an area in the brain called the basal ganglia — gained through research on Parkinson's disease — to pursue answers about decision - making and motivated behaviors.

«All these hormones and signals come to an area in the brain, which integrates this information and makes an interpretation — so when ghrelin is high, and all the appetite - suppressing signals are low, this can cause hunger,» he says.

Studies have shown that sex and meditation light up similar areas in the brain.

In addition, raw foods require more chewing, which spends additional energy and also triggers areas in the brain which signal satiety.

The researchers also looked for specific areas in the brain that were responsible for these prolonged naps.

«You slam your door on your finger, and certain areas in the brain light up,» says Robert Bonakdar, MD, director of pain management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in San Diego.

A 2008 study found that areas in the brain associated with mood are flooded with feel - good endorphins after running.

The area in your brain in charge of regulating thirst, the hypothalamus, also controls your appetite.

It's the most effective way to activate the positivity area in your brain, which gets your thoughts cycling in the right direction.