Sentences with phrase «neural structures as»

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From these findings, it follows that morality can be described physically, as a complex interplay of neural structures and neural chemistry in the brain.

Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.

Just as DNA's structural logic dictates the functional logic of heredity, he reasoned, the structure of our neural circuitry must explain why we experience red as red, pain as painful, or ourselves as selves.

Scientists headed by Dr. Stevens Rehen differentiated human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into neural stem cells and into further complex tridimensional structures, known as neurospheres and brain organoids.

Other vital structures, the axons and dendrites — known collectively as neurites — that project from the nerve cells and send and receive messages are dependent on this neural transport network.

A chick embryo's face develops largely thanks to cells from an embryonic structure known as the neural tube.

«Eventually, we want to be able to image whole brains, as is, with this method to see the entirety of their neural networks and other structures.»

When Kaufman, Zon and colleagues looked to see what was different about these early cancer cells, they found that crestin and the other activated genes are the same ones turned on during zebrafish embryonic development — specifically, in the stem cells that give rise to the pigment cells known as melanocytes, within a structure called the neural crest.

«Rather than colic reflecting digestive pain, as has often been assumed, we propose that it could be fear as the infant does more of what it is trying to reverse — that is, cry — becoming a victim of its own immature neural structures that are firing simultaneously and excessively.»

In contrast, the Stanford team's neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent signals to one another in coordinated patterns — just as they would in a brain.

For example, an AI neural network optimized to recognize the discrete anatomical structures of the eye, such as the retina, cornea or optic nerve, can more quickly and efficiently identify and evaluate them when examining images of a whole eye.

To understand this evocative force, researchers in many fields, including information science, neural perception, and signal processing, investigate music's underlying structure, examining features such as the tone, timbre, and auditory and rhythmic features of a piece.

Their analysis revealed the existence of change points as well as periods of persistent gene community structure, including a dynamic community of genes involved in neural projection guidance that was highly active during the mid to late fetal period.

It was previously thought that Pax3 was required for formation of certain structures in the early embryo, such as the neural tube, because it attaches to DNA and turns genes «on» or «off.»

Therefore, differences in the similarities of subjects» neural response time courses likely stem from factors such as differences in subjects» dispositions, moods, cognitive styles, pre-existing assumptions, expectations, values, views, and interests, as well as differences in the pre-existing knowledge structures into which incoming stimuli are integrated.

In medicine, this element is used as a contrast agent — something that identifies structures in the body, such as neural tissues, that accumulate this element.

Summary: Recent advances in systems neuroscience have motivated a shift of perspective on neural code from static single - neuron codes such as tuning functions to codes that are governed by structure and dynamics of population activity.

Another set of neural structures that may not contribute directly to conscious experience are subcortical structures such as the basal ganglia.

She emerges not only as a world authority on love's repair, but also on its underlying, neural, physiological and psychological structure.»