Sentences with phrase «medial frontal cortex»

The researchers shut down activity in peoples» posterior medial frontal cortex using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-- a noninvasive technique that sends magnetic energy through the scalp.

This module included the precuneus (PCun), posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), inferior parietal cortex, superior medial frontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

Moreover, brain imaging showed grey matter atrophy in the medial frontal cortex of older adults, which suggests that deterioration within the frontal lobe prevents deep slow waves from perfectly syncing up with spindles.

Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.

Win or lose, the EEG trace showed a distinctive dip arising from the medial frontal cortex — a response Gehring and Willoughby call the medial - frontal negativity (MFN).

Losses generated ERPs that originated deep within the medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located behind the upper forehead.

Dr. Jazayeri will develop these ideas in the context of a project where we have found a candidate neural code for motor timing based on the neural dynamics in the medial frontal cortex.

«These (medial frontal cortex & lateral prefrontal cortex) are maybe the two most fundamental brain areas involved with executive function and self - control,» says Reinhart, who used a new technique called high - definition transcranial alternating current stimulation (HD - tACS) to stimulate these two regions with electrodes placed on a participant's scalp.

To understand the neural basis of such flexibility, we recorded from the medial frontal cortex of nonhuman primates trained to produce different time intervals with different effectors.

Recording from downstream neurons in the caudate and from thalamic neurons projecting to the medial frontal cortex indicated that this phenomenon originates within cortical networks.