Sentences with phrase «neural activity for»

Instead, however, while there was indeed detectable neural activity for the so - called attended memory item (AMI)-- the one that the subjects knew they would need right away — there was none at all for the unattended memory items (UMI), which the subjects might also need, but not until later.

But neural activity for the uncued item quickly dropped to baseline, as if it had been forgotten, whereas the EEG signature of the cued item remained, a sign that it was still in working memory.

Not exact matches

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

The neural activity corresponding to the object is «erased» in the brain as a path is prepared for the next actuality.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that brain wave patterns deviate most from patterns of neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.

Overall, fMRI studies show that neural activity in women with PPD compared to people with major depression who had not given birth involves distinct patterns for new mothers with PPD.

Moore's «hemo - neural hypothesis» posits several mechanisms for how blood might modulate neuron activity.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

For decades, it has been well established that for parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical areFor decades, it has been well established that for parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical arefor parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical areas.

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

The use of the neural cortical activity for operant conditioning tasks has existed for decades.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

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.

Neural activity is detected through the highly localised electric fields generated when neurons fire, so densely packed, ultra-small measuring devices is important for accurate brain readings.

«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.»

As Poldrack lay still for 10 noisy minutes, the machine measured the activity throughout his brain's neural networks.

Menda developed the technique for recording the jumping spider's neural activity.

Rather than disc degeneration being the sole explanation for pain persistence, increased neural activity can manifest as pain hypersensitivity.

And researchers hope that scanning the brains of subjects engaged in such tasks will reveal clues about the neural activity required for conscious awareness.

Conducting studies on brain synchrony — neural activity that is in sync among people — in real - world settings offers a great opportunity for new types of data, Dikker says.

Brain activity in unborn children has been hard to study, and neonatologists have been forced to rely on indirect measures — such as heart rate — for clues to neural activity.

Many researchers are also hopeful about clinical trials under way with drugs that block certain receptors for glutamate, the main neurotransmitter in the brain that excites neural activity.

Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity.

Brain scans revealed activity in the fusiform face area, responsible for recognising real faces, they report in «Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia» (doi.org/vn8).

«Deep» nets contain anywhere from three to hundreds of layers, the last of which distills all of this neural activity into a singular prediction: This is a picture of a cat, for example.

«If the brain's neural - activity patterns are in overdrive, as is often the case for people with addiction or OCD, could we create a computer program that can help to retrain their brains and downshift this activity?»

She went to work setting up a new series of fMRI studies for observing neural activity in the visual cortex of awake macaque monkeys.

This new understanding would not only protect people from being denied access to treatment for mental illness but would also protect all of us from harmful manipulations of our neural activity through the misuse of technology.

Whereas these advances have a great potential for research and medicine, they pose a fundamental ethical, legal and social challenge: determining whether or under what conditions it is legitimate to gain access to or interfere with another person's neural activity.

Brain response was gauged by functional MRI, which measures changes in blood flow as a proxy for neural activity.

In the hippocampus, a major component responsible for memory, neural activity, synapse formation and expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were reduced in these mice (Image 2).

With a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, he's also creating brain implants for reading or controlling neural activity — helpful for diagnosing and treating people with epilepsy, or eventually for building those sci - fi brain - computer interfaces.

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can record the activity of neural networks; information processing technology that can handle the flood of data generated by BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories

«We examined the impact of beliefs about cravings prior to and after smoking while also measuring neural activity,» said Gu, who also serves as the head of the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Center for BrainHealth.

For the purpose of the study, Slomowitz grew a neural network on an array of electrodes and recorded the activity of single individual neurons in the network.

«Different neural strategies for junior high school male and female English learners: Boys and girls exhibit distinct neural activity on hearing English sentences.»

Researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, have discovered a new molecular «switch» that controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network.

During training sessions for BrainGate, the computer software learns to associate patterns of neural activity with the intent to move a hand in a particular direction; it can use those intentions to pilot a computer cursor or, if all goes as planned, a motorized wheelchair.

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.

Although ATP acting on neural P2X receptors is crucial for transmission of all taste qualities (Finger et al., 2005; Vandenbeuch et al., 2015), the role of other substances acting as neurotransmitters, cotransmitters, or modulators of neural activity is less clear (Kaya et al., 2004; Huang et al., 2005; Jaber et al., 2014; Takai et al., 2015).

But neural activity in regions associated with the self and with social considerations serves as a type of common denominator for various types of social and self - related thinking.

The paper is titled «Perceptual surprise improves action stopping by non-selectively suppressing motor activity via a neural mechanism for motor inhibition.»

This result, however, might not necessarily mean that IAA plays no significant role in this defensive behavior because the Acks induction was not clearly observed in the ALs of the Japanese honeybee workers even after the seizure - induction, suggesting that Acks might not be applicable for detection of neural activity in the ALs (data not shown).

The primers and probes for quantitative RT - PCR were designed based on the nucleotide sequences corresponding to the above - mentioned putative neural activity - inducible Acks transcript (Figure 1A).

They give animals a specific stimulus — a pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how neural activity depends upon the stimulus.

There are two possible explanations for this result: 1) The neural activity detected in the brains of workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball reflects thermal stimuli processing in the brain.

Thus, we concluded that Acks could be utilized as a marker of neural activity that occurred 30 to 60 min before in the brains of Japanese honeybees, although we could not detect the spotted signal in the antennal lobes (ALs, primary olfactory center), suggesting that Acks, like kakusei, is not useful for detecting neural activity in the ALs (data not shown).