Sentences with word «neocortex»

By using in vivo two - photon imaging in neocortex, we found that microglial cells are highly active in their presumed resting state, continually surveying their microenvironment with extremely motile processes and protrusions.

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology

«Anatomists have debated how to compare the DVR and neocortex for over a century, and our identification of IT neurons in the bird DVR helps to explain how such different brain structures can give rise to similar behaviors.»

A team of researchers from several institutions in Japan has found that developing neocortex neurons in mammals undergo a morphological transition from a multipolar shape to a bipolar shape due at least partially to signaling...

In that study, the UChicago researchers matched genetic markers of the «input» and «output» neurons of the mammalian neocortex with genes expressed in several bird DVR nuclei.

The complexity of primate neocortex may be significantly increased by the interaction of the evolutionarily - speaking «younger» neurons with those originating in the more primitive zone.»

The Limbic and Neocortex parts of the brain enable human beings to have empathy, connection, rapport, communication and creativity.

In mammals, cognitive skills are controlled by the multi-layered cerebral cortex, also called neocortex.

«There is an important distinction between neocortex volume and brain volume,» says Dunbar.

The digital neocortex will be much faster than the biological variety, and will only continue to increase in speed.

Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic norphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans.

NEOCORTEX BACK ONLINE.

Lehmann, J. & Dunbar, R. I. M. Network cohesion, group size and neocortex size in female - bonded Old World primates.

The goal is to investigate how neuronal ensembles in the hippocampus and neocortex give rise to specific memory operations such as encoding, storage, consolidation and retrieval.

The entorhinal cortex is one of the first areas to be affected in AD and is the main connection between the hippocampus and neocortex playing an important role in spatial memory [82].

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

Perturbations at multiple steps of neocortex development lead to cortical malformations.

They don't have the brain structure — a developed neocortex where pain occurs in higher vertebrates.»

The tree - like neocortex neurons are only one of many types of cells in the brain.

These results suggest that inhibition of SRGAP2 function by its human - specific paralogs has contributed to the evolution of the human neocortex by slowing the rate of excitatory synapse maturation and allowing the emergence of more spines per pyramidal neuron, which is a critical feature of human pyramidal neurons (Benavides - Piccione et al., 2002).

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology (Credit: Harvard University)

Of particular significance is their larger neocortex, which is associated with more complex social behavior.

I estimate that humans have on the order of 300 million pattern recognizers — the basic and ingenious mechanism for recognizing, remembering, and predicting a pattern, which accounts for the great diversity of our thinking — in our biological neocortex.

None of them seem to be driving neocortex.»

Abundant occurrence of basal radial glia in the subventricular zone of embryonic neocortex of a lissencephalic primate, the common marmoset Callithrix jacchus.

Remove a mother hamster's entire neocortex and she will seem feeble - minded in a psychologist's maze, but she can still love and raise her pup.

Production of a Quality Control Pipeline for Single Nuclei RNA - seq and Its Application in the Analysis of Cell Type Diversity of Post-Mortem Human Brain Neocortex

And get this: the limbic system predates the far more civilized neocortex or «thinking» portion of your brain by millions of years of evolution.

The stated reasons for public dissatisfaction were not actually reasonsbut rationalizations by frantic neocortexes that found themselves thrust into the position of having to objectify a mood that was forcing its way out of their hosts» limbic systems.

Each of these species possesses an avian neocortex of exceptional size relative to its body, rears its young for an extended period, and lives in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competition.

In an earlier study, Dyer discovered that hand motion directions corresponded with reliable neural signaling patterns in the brain's motor neocortex.

Self - organization of axial polarity, inside - out layer pattern, and species - specific progenitor dynamics in human ES cell - derived neocortex.

Ultimately we will create an artificial neocortex that has the full range and flexibility of its human counterpart.

Martin, head of the INI, wanted to study the circuitry of the macaque neocortex, which carries out higher functions such as spatial reasoning and conscious thought.

We can each have our own private neocortex extenders in the cloud, just as we have our own private stores today of music, digital photos, and other personal data.

Miguel Turrero Garcia (Huttner, MPG)-- «Analysis of the cell cycle of neural progenitors in the developing ferret neocortex» (2013)

Shultz, S. & Dunbar, R. I. M. Species differences in executive function correlate with hippocampus volume and neocortex ratio across nonhuman primates.

Lichtman says that mouse neocortex test study for nanoscale brain imaging looked at a mere three billionths or so of the brain's volume.

We want to understand how neural stem cell proliferation is tightly controlled, both spatially and temporally, to allow for the efficient formation of the highly organized neocortex.

To investigate neocortex development, we use in utero electroporation, coupled to live imaging of embryonic brain slices (Fig. 2).

First, various features of the dolphin neocortex — the part of the brain involved in higher - order thinking and processing of emotional information — are «particularly expanded» in dolphins.

Birds don't have a multilayered neocortex.

What makes this problematic is that we are both blessed and cursed as homosapiens with the an advanced neocortex or «rational» forebrain.

The modern human brain (below, shown to the same scale) is about three times larger, with more than four times the amount of neocortex surface area.

Neuronal cell types in the brains of birds linked to goal - directed behaviors and cognition are similar to cells in the mammalian neocortex, the large, layered structure on the outer surface of the brain where most higher - order processing takes place.