Sentences with phrase «monkey brain»

The technique should eventually benefit traditional electrode studies of monkey brain activity by helping to identify the brain regions worth probing, Albright says.

In 1969 Charles Gross, a neuroscientist then at Harvard, discovered that certain neurons in monkey brains respond strongly only to the sight of a hand, and other researchers later found monkey neurons that respond strongly only to faces.

It is an activity creative people seem to dislike as much as monkey brains and cold cooked spinach.

His trek leads the trio to a beautiful mountaintop palace where they are wined and dined on eyeball soup and chilled monkey brains while being assured that nothing unsavory is happening in the neighborhood.

The CMU team used PisCES to follow neural gene expressions from conception through adulthood in rhesus monkey brains to find out what genes work together during different points of development.

«The most striking observation so far is that monkey brains mature way faster,» says Muotri.

«The difference in ape cerebellar volume, relative to a scaled monkey brain, is equal to 16 billion extra neurons,» says Barton.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

The basic technology that Nicolelis and colleagues used to extract instructions for movement from the mishmash of monkey brain signals isn't new, says Jose Contreras - Vidal, a biomedical engineer at the University of Houston in Texas.

Using an implanted electrode, they saw activation in monkey brain regions analogous to those reported on in humans when the monkey stopped looking at the black circle in favor of the colored dots.

Meanwhile, Michael Arbib, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, is working on a variant of the gestural theory based on the discovery of similarities in the way human brains recognize language and monkey brains recognize gestures.

Immunohistochemistical detection of GFAP antibody - Astrocyte Marker (ab7260) on formaldehyde - fixed paraffin - embedded monkey brain sections.

ComiXology also managed to sign a deal with Monkey Brain Comics, a strictly digital publisher that launched exclusively this summer on ComiXology.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I purchased this digital comic, but I'm a sucker for dogs and Monkey Brain comics haven't let me down yet.

Previous studies comparing brains across species tended to assume that human brains were just blown - up versions of monkey brains and that functions are carried out by anatomically similar areas.

Eggs are OK, as is chicken skin, but for higher doses, grass - fed gelatin is the easiest way to do it if the idea if eating ox heart or chilled monkey brains isn't appealing.

I've always disliked the original name (probably becuase someone once referred to it as monkey brains) and find the term «sticky» to be much more fitting.

From monkey brains to Stardew Valley.

Our monkey brains panic when resources are scant — which makes consumers more likely to buy.

This won't work because — apologies — you're the descendant of a club - wielding, monkey brained, prehistoric caveman...

For guidance into how to connect many such chips in a large brain - like network, they turn to a «wiring diagram» of the monkey brain as represented by the CoCoMac database.

You are modeling not a human brain or a monkey brain but something very specific — the neocortical column in a two - week - old rat.

«Our findings suggest that the monkey brain has the basic «hardware» [for mirror self - recognition], but they need appropriate training to acquire the «software» to achieve self - recognition,» says Neng Gong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 1998 philosopher William Hirstein of Elmhurst College and I (Ramachandran) suggested that cells in the monkey brain that are known to respond to individual faces (such as Joe, the alpha male) will do so even more vigorously to a caricature of the face than the original.

But now the interesting part of the experiment is that we can make chimeras, which have different parts of our human brains and different parts of a monkey brain.

The unsuccessful search for new neurons in adult human and monkey brains is disappointing to many.

This idea has also been tested physiologically, by recording from individual neurons in two areas of the monkey brain: the primary visual cortex (V1), which receives signals from the retina (after being relayed through the thalamus), and the middle temporal area (MT) on the side of the brain, which is specialized for seeing motion.

The results of the «exhaustive search» for new neurons in adult human and monkey brains «will disappoint many,» says neuroscientist Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

A new study of the monkey brain suggests that primates are uniquely adapted to recognize the features of this slithering threat and react in a flash.

A scientific disagreement — In an 1881 neuroanatomy atlas, Wernicke, a well - known anatomist who in 1874 discovered «Wernicke's area,» which is essential for language, wrote about a fiber pathway in a monkey brain he was examining.

A new study of the monkey brain suggests that primates are uniquely adapted to recognize snakes and react in a flash.

The scientists inserted an optical fiber into the monkey brains and were able to switch the neurons on with flashes, just as they do in a petri dish.

Realize that everyone gets «monkey brain,» which happens when your thoughts hop around and lots of things pop into your mind that you don't have to listen to or believe.

This seem oddly obvious, but the monkey brain in our heads that takes off running most every day, is what syphons our energy and therefore, our precious time.

I should add that I suffered from panic attacks, fatigue, and as they say «monkey brain» after my surgery.

Jesse James is inexorable, the trick being that it transforms our ugly predestination — our complete inability to elevate ourselves above the seedy, fleshy urges hardwired into our monkey brains — into something lyrical and fine.

Yes, Harrison Ford is noble and dashing as the titular archeologist, but without his pint - sized best friend, he would've barely survived the chilled monkey brains.

Eventually you will think nothing of eating pepperoni pizza and monkey brains.

It's kind of like Amazon subbing out the Kindle store to a company — let's call them Monkey Brain Books — that sells Kindles to inner city zoologists and decides to put their brand name on the existing Kindle ebook store that's been around for years, and redo the apps to say Monkey Brain Books.

The latest issue of Monkey Brain «s digital first comic High Crimes is available at Comixology.

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Eyeball soup, monkey brains, live baby snakes and the giant beetles that are devoured like little shellfish.

Other works on view will be Geno Pheno Sculpture: «If That Then This» (2005) by British artist Keith Tyson and Tim Hawkinson's Monkey Brains (2007).

I guess it is monkey brains and social engineering.

Monkey brain is the opposite of mindfulness, where you are paying attention to the «right here and now» instead of your fear, desire or doubt.