Sentences with phrase «neurons fired either way»

Not exact matches

A new habit also forces your brain to find the best way to get things done as the neurons in your brain need to fire differently.

It doesn't really require much faith to believe that at all... because since my brain operates via chemistry, once my neurons stop firing, I have no reason to expect that I'd continue to live in any way.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

If we compare the power I exercise by way of sound waves upon your ears (power, sense 1) with the power that I, in action, exercise upon some neuron that fires or is inhibited from firing during the action (power, sense 2), we see a marked difference.

If you want to say that God doesn't exist and we're just chemical reactions, neurons firing randomly, or mindless matter... then back up your argument that way.

Many neuroscientists had long believed that the only way to extract data from the brain specific enough to control an external device was to penetrate the cortex and sink electrodes into the gray matter, where the electrodes could record the firing of individual neurons.

Roi Cohen Kadosh at the University of Oxford and colleagues applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- a way of changing the voltage across neurons that makes them more or less likely to fire — to the right parietal cortex while simultaneously using the opposite current to subdue activity in the left.

One way to image these cause - and - effect relationships is through optogenetics, which involves genetically engineering mice so that their neurons fire when hit with a beam of light shone through the skull.

Ramsey's brain is already changing as his neurons learn to fire in specific ways that better control the synthesizer.

To do so, researchers will need to find non-invasive ways to record the firing of individual neurons, because all current methods involve opening the skull and, often, sticking electrodes into brain tissue.

Put another way, the coincidental firing of two neurons close to each other somehow causes the connections between them to strengthen.

The potential for brainlike machines emerged as early as 1943, when neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts proposed an idealized mathematical formulation for the way networks of neurons interact to cause one another to fire, sending messages throughout the brain.

«Going up and down, up and down, basically all the neurons fire and then all are silent — it's a wonderful way for the brain to tell the synapses to get weaker,» Tononi explains.

«We are not saying that these are grand - mother cells, but for familiar things, like your family or celebrities, things you see frequently, the neurons are wired up and fire in a very specific way — much more so than previously thought,» Koch explains.

Somehow, the mouse olfactory system had to evolve a way to adjust, to encode incoming sensory information so that it doesn't saturate the firing range of olfactory neurons.»

Along the way, signals from important features in our visual field — strong outlines, faces, bright points of light — increase the firing of some neurons, while less important features decrease the firing of others.

Circuits of cells called mirror neurons that fire or send out signals when we see someone act in a way that's familiar may have played a role in a 20 - point, post — Republican Convention swing in allegiances among white, female Obama supporters to the GOP ticket, says Marco Iacoboni, author of the book Mirroring People: The Science of How We Connect with Others.

Not to get too nerdy here, but I actually mean that quite literally; the neurons that fire develop paths, and the more they fire in that particular way, the more likely they are to fire that way again.

This way, it actually increases the firing of neurons and the concentration of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine (4, 5).

To practice helping teachers generate ways to access prior student knowledge and stimulate student interest, choose a topic for a grade level in your school and develop three ways to «fire neurons.»