Sentences with phrase «measuring brain activation»

The administration technique was validated by measuring the brain activation in response to a rose - like smelling odor (phenyl ethyl alcohol) in 8 participants (see supplementary material S1).

Smith and colleagues had study participants identify famous names and measured their brain activation while engaged in correctly recognizing a name — e.g., Frank Sinatra, or other celebrities well known to adults born in the 1930s and 40s.

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And studies measuring cerebral blood flow discovered introvert brain activation is greater in the frontal cortex, where things that necessitate focus and attention happen, such as remembering, planning, decision making, and problem solving.

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

Next, Hu plans to test brain activation patterns in people given time to practice their lies to see if this measure can reliably discern truthful words from prepared hogwash.

A second finding involved brain synchronization — a measure of how well coordinated the brain activation was across different regions of the brain.

The researchers measured NF - κB activation in mouse brains as they aged and noted that, while the protein was barely active in the hypothalamuses of young mice, it became increasingly active as the mice got older.

Task - based functional connectivity measures the synchronization of activation levels between brain regions during the performance of a given cognitive task.

Satiety and physiological hunger was assessed by measuring hormonal markers and perceived appetite sensations combined with psychological reward - driven eating motivation, making use of fMRI to determine brain activation in certain areas associated with food motivation and reward.

Verbal working memory load affects regional brain activation as measured by PET.

Children who are relatively less affected by conflict receive higher parental ratings of EC and higher scores on laboratory measures of inhibitory control.12 Moreover, using experimental tasks is particularly effective when it comes to understanding the brain basis underlying children's control skills, because the child can perform those tasks while neural activation is registered with brain imaging techniques.

These methods now offer the possibility of allowing individuals to view real - time measures of their own regional brain activation (deCharms, 2008).

Recent advances in neuroimaging and computing have enabled the development of such methods based on functional MRI - based measures of regional brain activation (Cox et al., 1995).

As the interest of this study lay in the role of individual differences in the BAS on brain activation during task - switching, only the SR measures were considered in our analysis.