Sentences with phrase «neural activity while»

The researchers recorded neural activity while videotaping the mice's behavior in different social situations.

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).

Anja Roye of the University of Leipzig in Germany and colleagues recorded the text - alert tones of 12 volunteers, then played them all the tones, at the same volume and in a random order, while recording their neural activity via scalp electrodes.

While psychological tests focused on facial recognition show no difference between these groups, the scientists found differences in these recognition abilities on the ERP measurements, which look directly at neural activity.

When patients like Godfrey Catanus in the study heard the voice of a family member calling their names out loud and reciting stories while they were in an MRI, their brains showed increased neural activity.

In a bid to determine the regions of the brain concerned with these memorization difficulties, the researchers conducted magneto - encephalographs (a technique that allows very weak magnetic fields produced by neural activity to be measured at the surface of the head) on a group of amusics while they were performing a musical task.

When patients in the study heard the voice of a family member calling their names out loud and reciting stories while they were in an MRI, their brains showed increased neural activity.

While male and female participants performed about the same in terms of accuracy and reaction time, the neural pathways that were activated were different: Women showed greater activity in both hemispheres in the prefrontal cortex — in regions implicated in language functions and higher - level cognitive functions — than men.

«When we look at the neural processes that take place in the brain while processing the symbols, we see that around 400 milliseconds after the presentation of the to - be-counted symbol, there is an extreme reduction in brain activity, although it should normally be very high,» explains Schmidt.

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.

Boly found that the healthy and minimally conscious subjects showed neural activity throughout the complete loop, while truly vegetative ones did not.

The synapses in the network start out with a random distribution of weights, and the weights are gradually tweaked according to a remarkably simple procedure: The neural firing pattern generated while the machine is being fed data (such as images or sounds) is compared with random firing activity that occurs while the input is turned off.

«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.

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.

While this was happening, the researchers measured the activity in two parts of the monkeys» brains, the parietal lobe and the frontal lobe, which is the next place neural signals are sent.

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

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.

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.

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.

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