Sentences with phrase «neural activity in»

Our studies have shown that short - term meditation training increases the ability to resolve conflict in a cognitive task, altered neural activity in the ACC, and improved connectivity of the ACC to other brain regions (5, 16, 17, 19, 20).

He really means that increased neural activity in these areas of the brain is correlated with certain behavioral and cognitive phenomena, which actually means only that such activity tends to occur at about the same time as the behavioral and cognitive phenomena.

So, the blood flow is an indication of neural activity in the brain.

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.

Then, while the participants performed an attention testing task, neural activity in the brain was measured by making use of electrodes on the scalp.

The reason isn't entirely clear, but as this video from the American Chemical Society explains, one theory is that ginger DNA may heighten neural activity in the periaqueductal grey — a part of the brain that controls some pain sensation.

Within silico, a computational neural model was made to predict neural activity in slow - wave sleep.

The scientists used optogenetics — an innovative research tool that uses light to activate or inhibit select cells in the brain — to stimulate either the go or the stop pathway in mice that were running on a tiny treadmill, while recording neural activity in the brainstem.

We found increased neural activity in the visual cortex, and decreased medial prefrontal activity, when participants made more fixations to the videos.

Then of course we don't know the outcome of the virtual reality stimulation studies yet, but we like to think that the study that we're now conducting and studies like it from people outside the CFC are raising the conversation and are raising the importance of neural activity in retinal ganglion cells as a way to both keep ganglion cells alive and perhaps even to bring back some that are really on the brink of dying.

Weinberger suspected that those who inherit the variant transporter, and who were associated with more anxiety and fearfulness in earlier studies, would exhibit greater neural activity in the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear.

The scanner mapped participants» neural activity in specific brain areas before, during and after the presentation of the visual target events.

The rats all developed two separate fears, one for each tone, which showed up in brain scans as increased neural activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain directly related to fear.

«This advance is, in our opinion a crucial first step towards high density, full - coverage mapping of neural activity in a sizeable brain region,» says team member and lead author of this study Xiaoling Wei.

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

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

Using Acks as a neural activity marker, we demonstrated that neural activity in the mushroom bodies, especially in Class II Kenyon cells, one subtype of mushroom body intrinsic neurons, and a restricted area between the dorsal lobes and the optic lobes was increased in the brains of Japanese honeybee workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball.

It is plausible that some MB neurons that receive thermal information from peripheral neurons expressing TRP channels and / or other MB neurons expressing TRP channels themselves are responsible for the increased neural activity in the MBs of heat - exposed workers.

We expected that Acks signals detected at 0 min (in bee ball formation experiment) or in control bees (in heat - exposure and IAA - exposure experiments) would reflect background level neural activity and the neural activity in the workers forming a bee ball, heat - exposed or IAA - exposed workers could be considerably increased.

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).

Neural activity in the more rostral part of the brain during bee ball formation.

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).

Despite decades of work, neuroscientists still struggle to describe how neural activity in the brain relates to the movements being generated.

Neural activity in the caudal part of the brain during bee ball formation.

This result suggested that contribution of the antennal sensory input to the neural activity in the whole MBs of heat - exposed workers is partial at most.

Neural activity in the middle part of the brain 60 min after the bee ball formation.

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.

They found that older adults who had greater variability in neural activity in specific brain regions performed better on fluid ability and memory tasks, and also had better quality of structural white matter connections in the brain.

«Our study suggests that double - projecting hippocampal neurons can facilitate synchronized neural activity in the mPFC and amygdala that is implicated in learned fear,» he said.

To work out why stimulation has this effect, Damiaan Denys and Martijn Figee at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues recorded neural activity in people with electrodes implanted into a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

They found that children of mothers with a lower education had noisier, weaker and more variable neural activity in response to sound and greater activity in the absence of sound.

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.

The study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found heightened neural activity in the brain's connector hubs during complex tasks, such as puzzles and video games, while networks dedicated to specific functions did not need to put in extra work.

They then compared neural activity in the connector hubs to activity in each of the brain's dedicated networks during all the tasks recorded in the BrainMap database.

They observe spot - like neural activity in the dorsal part of the fish telencephalon, which corresponds to the human cortex, upon presentation of the red LED 24 hours after the training session.

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

«New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain.»

The scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to capture neural activity in the insula cortex, a region of the brain that plays a role in diverse functions such as bodily perception and self - awareness.

Intriguingly, the infralimbic vmPFC inhibits stress - induced neural activity in the rodent brainstem and is important in facilitating escape and extinction learning (18, 26).

In 1995, Hinton and colleagues proposed that sleep serves the same function as the baseline component of the algorithm, the rate of neural activity in the absence of input.

Compared with stimulation from traditional cochlear implant electrodes, the light produced more precise neural activity in the brain stem, similar to normal hearing.

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 boosted neural activity in the frontotemporal cortex, a brain region associated with conscious self - awareness, which normally gets tamped down during REM.

Meanwhile, the decoder now also keeps track of the baseline levels of neural activity in the motor cortex during moments when participants have chosen to pause.

In a series of experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the animals» brains to musical notes, so that when one group of neurons switched on, a corresponding musical note played.

This «explanation net» would learn which neural activity in the original model is most important in making a particular decision.

Korey Smith, a student at North Carolina's Johnson C. Smith University (one of the nation's 104 historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs), said that presenting his research on working memory and neural activity in rhesus macaques was just one reason to attend ERN.

In order to test these possibilities the researchers measured neural activity in an fMRI machine while participants played a computerized game wherein they could gain money by predicting the outcome of coin flips.

In addition, the researchers found they could improve rats» stopping ability by applying a chemogenetic treatment that enhanced neural activity in that region.

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation on 17 volunteers, they inhibited neural activity in the frontotemporal area.