And those who experienced surprises had greater happiness (
measured by brain activity).
A brisk morning workout decreases interest in food, as
measured by brain wave activity, and doesn't make subjects eat more, according to new research.
Other possible factors that might explain or influence the altruistic behavior — such as higher cognition (
measured by brain size), hunting in groups, or stronger social bonds between group members — showed either much weaker correlations or no correlation at all with helping behaviors.
At the same time, their brain activity was
measured by brain imaging.
This was
measured by their brain responses to English and Spanish sounds.
A 2012 study showed that pink noise made a measurable difference in the quality in sleep, both in how participants felt afterwards and as
measured by brain activity monitors).
Religious experiences can not be
measured by brain activities alone.
Not exact matches
Tons of people who have objectively bad sleep as
measured by surveys,
brain waves, and sleep diaries actually don't feel troubled about their sleep at all.
fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) «is a functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that
measures brain activity
by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to Wikipedia.
Ebay: NeuroFocus redeveloped a new brand identity based on tests they did with consumers
by measuring emotions and
brain activity.
For example, a standard measurement tool used
by neuromarketing is the EEG (electroencephalogram), which
measures our
brain's electrical activity.
The research (which thrills me personally) was led
by Larry Stevens, a Northern Arizona University psychologist, and involved looking at the effects of eating dark chocolate on the
brain, using an EEG machine to
measure brain activity.
So what can scientists learn
by measuring your
brain activity when, say, you listen to a cello solo or view a piece of art?
In the last year, the technology long used
by researchers to
measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.
This can be proven
by measuring brain waves.
Winning mentality Work rate Ball winning ability Football
brain of the street type And many other stuffs not
measured by OPTA.
Until very recently, impact sensors - accelerometers
measuring the forces which, when transmitted to the
brain, cause sports - related concussions - were only used
by scientists in conducting research.
The study,
by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University,
measured first - time parents»
brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.
It does not
measure other critical
brain functions that can be adversely affected
by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»
The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's
by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective
measures of many aspects of
brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.
Magnetoencelphalography, or MEG, is a technique that
measures the tiny magnetic fields generated
by brain activity.
Using exquisitely precise methods to
measure how memories are embedded in
brain cells in mice, scientists have shown how fear - based memories prompted
by the sound associated with an electric shock can be activated and erased.
Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly
measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep
brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated
by implanting DBS electrodes.
A man wearing an EEG cap that
measures brain activity triggered exposure to these fluorescent drugs simply
by doing calculations in his head (PLoS, doi.org/bpwp).
The newfound ability to
measure sound processing in the
brain has led to other important discoveries in neuroeducation
by Kraus and her team.
With PET scans and functional MRI, we can observe fluctuations in
brain activity
by measuring changes in blood flow and levels of nutrients.
To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led
by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly
measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep
brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.
«In patients with
brain injury, combat exposure
by itself did not seem to correlate with the high rate of PTSD or depression or the other
measures we reported,» Brody said.
Both techniques show which areas of the
brain are active
by measuring oxygenated blood.
Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in
brain wave activity as
measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.
The hair cells formed normal bundles (see images) that responded to sound waves and signaled the
brain, as
measured by electrical recordings.
Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that
measures brain activity
by detecting changes in blood flow.
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which
measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the
brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which
measures magnetic fields created
by the
brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.
By combining these one - in - a-million people with tools capable of directly
measuring brain activity, the scientists now have the unprecedented opportunity to study the genetic underpinnings of mental disorders.
In the meantime, the researchers followed the subjects»
brain activity
measured by electrodes glued to the scalp.
Perchance to Dream In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago and his graduate student Eugene Aserinsky discovered that slumber, which had been considered a single continuous period of downtime, contains recurring periods in which the sleeper's eyes move about, heartbeat and breathing become irregular, most voluntary muscles are paralyzed and
brain activity (as
measured by electroencephalography) is heightened.
Functional MRI is an imaging procedure that detects
brain activity
by measuring blood flow.
Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question
by combining
measures of electrical activity in the
brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.
The team examined the brainwave patterns of 36 infants (17 in the first experiment and 19 in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which
measures patterns of
brain electrical activity via electrodes in a skull cap worn
by the participants.
These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the
brains of test participants
by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.
By assessing the survival of the cells that engulf the particles and
measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with human
brain cancer derived from their patients.
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.
Imaging scans show the
brain shifts its activity (
measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.
It
measures blood flow to the
brain by sending light signals from sensors mounted in a 3 - pound headcap, then producing images of blood oxygen changes — representing
brain activity —
by recording the absorption of light at different colors.
Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis
by scanning the
brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect
measure of
brain activity) as they completed the tasks.
Since the current work was done in mice, O'Leary and Zembrzycki want to confirm the link in humans
by using
brain scans to
measure the natural variation in the neocortical areas and search for potential links to disease.
After getting a full night's rest at the lab, which researchers monitored
by measuring neural electrical activity, their
brains were scanned via functional MRI as they waited to be shown, and then viewed 90 images during a 45 - minute session.
When they
measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp
brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered
by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.
More detailed studies can be done
by measuring blood flow in the
brain, using the scanning technique known as positron emission tomography (PET).
«Once the body dies, some part of our consciousness leaves us and travels to a new plane,» the scientist explains, evidenced
by his machine that
measures, as another character puts it, «
brain wavelengths on a subatomic level leaving the body after death.»