Sentences with phrase «neural activity underlying»

Using this data, we will map the neural activity underlying long - term, internal states, such as hunger, and examine how that influences neural activity linked to medium - term behaviors, such as mating.

The new technique, called Calcium and Light - Induced Gene Handling Toolkit or «Cal - Light,» allows researchers to observe and manipulate the neural activities underlying behavior with never - before - seen specificity, hopefully allowing researchers to identify causality between neuronal activity and behavior.

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The activity of the default mode network might be the biological equivalent of this incessant running internal monologue, suggests Zellner — the neural phenomenon that underlies this mental experience.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

«New tool to identify and control neurons: Researchers develop a technique to visualize and control the neural activities that underlie behavior.»

While these internal neural processes are being observed, the researchers learn more about how the neural system operates through a method called perturbation, which is intentionally disrupting the dynamical neural system in precise ways in order to better understand the underlying principles that control its activity.

Our study forms the foundation to analyze the neural circuit mechanisms underlying preparatory activity in a genetically tractable model organism.Short - term memories link events separated in time.

At the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, the INNF is supporting a revolutionary project to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the onset of disease by recording the neuronal activity of brain structures controlling movement, sleep, and learning and memory.

To find out, they designed an experiment using behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques to explore the ways in which brief bouts of physical exercise impact human performance and underlying neural activity.