Sentences with phrase «more on the brain activity»

That seems to be what President Obama was implying in his recent SOTU address (for more on the Brain Activity Map Project, see this NYT article).

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The researchers also performed MRIs on all the participants and found that compared with the low - flavanol group, the 900 mg - a-day flavanol drinkers showed more activity in the dentate gyrus (an area of the brain located in the hippocampus and linked to the formation of new memories).

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

On the other hand, writing promotes brain activity thus enabling a person to become more educated.

On this site and particularly in my free ezine, The Whole Child I offer you many more types of preschool activities to ensure the healthy all - round brain development of children and school readiness skills:

Birthing practices that isolate women from their innate capacity to birth can interfere with these behaviours because women then focus on breastfeeding as a left brained activity when actually research has shown us it is more of a right brained activity (Smilie 2008).

Children who do not get enough exercise may miss out on the chance to make the strong kinds of brain - muscle connections that make physical activity easier and more enjoyable.

For example, knowing the precise brain activity involved could shed light on disorders in which body awareness is disrupted, such as schizophrenia, and help with the development of prosthetic limbs that are more easily incorporated into body image.

«From our data set, we had on average decreased brain activity and more diffuse brain activity — where more areas of the brain were needed to accomplish the task because the usual areas weren't as efficient.»

«If you look at brain signaling on the level of individual neurons, it looks very mysterious, but if you take a step back and observe the activity of a population of hundreds of neurons instead, you might see simpler, clearer patterns that intuitively make more sense.»

By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the brains of timid children are more active on the right side — specifically, in a region called the right frontal cortex.

Young children usually show language activity in the same areas on both sides of their brain, Newport noted, and the left side becomes more dominant over time.

What's more, data from the electrodes showed a spike in brain activity with each buzz, revealing that spiders actually hear sounds, from a swooping mud dauber wasp to you crunching potato chips on your couch.

Changes in brain activity during brain imaging suggest the intervention might capitalize on neuroplasticity to train the brain to work more efficiently.

Although Pittsburgh's Berg was skeptical of the 10 - year, $ 3 billion Brain Activity Map proposal, «now that it's been downsized somewhat and focused on technology development I feel much more comfortable with the project,» he says.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of mBrain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of mbrain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

«This suggests more people may have mental activity initially but then lose their memories after recovery, either due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall,» explained Dr Parnia, who was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton when he started the AWARE study.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

In the above image on the right, we see that the three Pac - Man shapes «underneath» the triangle cause little brain activity (coloured blue), but the separate Pac - Man on the right causes more activity.

«It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual - spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans — and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions,» Berman explained.

Companion studies also shed light on the question of why boys are more likely to develop autism than girls, and begin to outline a network of genes whose activity is altered in the brains of individuals with autism.

The researchers found that, on average, the more money a participant gave away, and the stronger the feelings of gratitude they reported feeling, the more activity they exhibited in a range of brain areas in the frontal, parietal, and occipital regions.

The next quote provides more detail on how suboptimal glucose activity affects mitochondrial activity in the AD brain:

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It's precisely these enzymes that curcumin can stimulate in their activity, increasing the likelihood of more DHA production — and along with it, improved brain function in areas especially reliant on DHA.

After battling tears through a series of straightforward health and lifestyle - related questions and a brief physical examination, the doctor gave me information on a nearby lab and instructed me to make appointments for a Polysomnogram and Multiple Sleep Latency Test or MSLT, the most effective methods for diagnosing narcolepsy while simultaneously ruling out other more common disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea.While I slept, what seemed like tons of tiny electrodes monitored my brain waves, eye movement, heart rate and muscle activity.

For my next post, I will define some key phrases you should know about the «tween brain and follow a memorized fact as it travels from point A to point B. And in the third post, I will offer some advice on activities to embed knowledge more deeply into the fickle and easily distracted middle school noggin.

It can cause problems in a single activity or more generalized problems, depending on the exact area of the brain involved.

Alongside his best - known work — the books and merch; his 2012 solo show, Brain Activity, at London's Hayward gallery; his huge bronze thumb, titled Really Good, which until last month sat on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square — he is also drawn to more esoteric commissions.