Sentences with phrase «neural activity»

A newly - developed mathematical method can detect geometric structure in neural activity in the brain.

The resulting image reveals levels of neural activity in the moment immediately after she received the radioactive fluid, when she presumably was still immersed in contemplation.

Male rodents given access to a running wheel early in life show increased neural activity and improved memory as adults.

The mouse will be trained to make decisions about visual stimuli while we measure neural activity brain - wide.

Researchers find that although there is some consistency in neural activity during deception, the same neurons fire during other mental and emotional states as well.

When one muscle is activated, tension is spread as well as neural activity throughout nearby areas, making you become slightly stronger in those areas.

In addition, they analyzed which model best matched physiological data on neural activity from 20 experimental studies.

This data will amount to a map of neural activity underlying short - term memory, decision - making and movement initiation.

The scientists then used powerful computers to crunch the imaging data, seeking out common patterns of neural activity at different ages.

In addition, holding the hand of an attachment figure (spouse) has been shown to reduce threat - related neural activity associated with the anticipation of painful experience (9).

Specifically, healthy older adults exhibit an inability to effectively suppress neural activity associated with distracting information, which is correlated with their short - term memory impairment.

A miniature microscope (right) about the size of a quarter let researchers peek inside mice's heads and glimpse neural activity involved in social behavior.

The study found that when you sleep your brain removes toxic proteins from its neurons that are by - products of neural activity when you're awake.

To investigate changes in brain efficiency, the research team studied neural activity while the participant performed a task.

However, the high neural activity during sleep suggests there is more to the story.

Their latest research shows that if that spontaneous neural activity is blocked, correct neural circuits in the visual system are not established and vision can not occur.

The electrodes provided a precise map of the resulting neural activity.

The resulting pattern mimics the abnormal neural activity seen in anxiety disorders.

The researchers found that the brain is constrained to take neural activity patterns it already knows and use them for the new task.

The collective neural activity therefore looks different when executing the same grip on one object versus another.

By introducing a calcium sensitive fluorescent substance in the neural tissue, it becomes possible to trace the calcium influx in neurons and thus visualize neural activity.

He has also worked extensively to develop new tools for monitoring and manipulating neural activity in awake, active animals.

After the tests, the scans of neural activity happening in areas known for facial recognition — as well as other types of visual recognition — were statistically identical for both men and women.

This makes it potentially impossible to find a unique, simple code describing neural activity in terms of movement.

To take it further, the scientists then compared the scans from their study with previous research matching neural activity to thought processes.

Multiple laboratories have observed unusual neural activity resembling epilepsy in some lines of genetically modified mice widely used in neuroscience research.

Several of the brain areas that had lost gray matter during pregnancy responded with the strongest neural activity to their own babies as opposed to the photos of other infants.

Different patterns of neural activity yielded different combinations of notes.

Indeed, that neural activity explains why I imagined these options, and it explains why I am writing these very words.

We each carry within ourselves a different kind of city: an inner hub of energetic neural activity that creates our mind.

This is an efficient way to keep stress - induced hyper neural activity at bay.

Many edited proteins are found in neural tissues, and these proteins are thought to act as a switch to regulate functions such as neural activity.

Using sophisticated genetic and imaging techniques, we can take measurements of neural activity at up to 200 times per second.

After analysis, the researchers were able to observe how the patterns of neural activity were changing at each stage of each task.

Other scientists have used neural activity in attempts to recreate what people are looking at or capture people's thoughts in the form of their inner voice.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

To truly see how neural activity changes during learning, we need to look bigger — at populations of neurons, rather than one neuron at a time, which has been the standard approach to date.

The device, part of the Lab's iCHIP (in - vitro Chip - Based Human Investigational Platform) project, simulates the central nervous system by recording neural activity from multiple brain cell types deposited and grown onto microelectrode arrays.

Across the limited regions of the brain they scanned... glucose significantly raised the level of neural activity for about 20 minutes following the infusion.

«We are now exploring whether the method can also be used to control neural activity as a means for noninvasively modulating the activity of neural circuits.»

Buzsáki acknowledges there are many possible routes by which conventional TES could alter neural activity indirectly or over longer time scales.

Sensors placed on the insect monitor neural activity while they are freely moving, decoding the odorants present in their environment.

fMRI is a medical imaging technique which, when applied to the brain allows us to non-invasively observe neural activity associated with specific human behaviour.

If neural activity corresponding to one body part could adapt and move another body part — in this case, whiskers — then perhaps it would be possible to reroute nerve signals on a larger scale, around an injured spine or into a prosthetic limb.

He and his colleagues hypothesised that when the brain is presented with the same sensory input — a picture, say — time after time, then conscious awareness of the picture should produce similar neural activity each time.

A comparison wa made between their behavior change from the beginning to the finish of the research with neural activity in a specific brain region which a previous study had indicated is predictive of behavior change.

No Effect of Commercial Cognitive Training on Neural Activity During Decision - Making — Joseph W. Kable — Journal of Neuroscience

Event - related potential (ERP) techniques record brain signals through electrodes on the scalp and reflect neural activity synchronized to the onset of a stimulus.

Slow - wave sleep (SWS) is characterized by synchronized neural activity alternating between active upstates and quiet downstates.