Sentences with phrase «neuroscientists believe»

Neuroscientists believe that dopamine levels in our brain rise when a reward is involved.

Most neuroscientists believe that conversing with the brain in its own language will require implanted electrodes.

Neuroscientists believe that consciousness emerges from the material stuff of the brain primarily because even very small changes to your brain (say, by drugs or disease) can powerfully alter your subjective experiences.

Many neuroscientists believe that a buildup in the brain of a protein fragment called beta - amyloid causes Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscientists believe that memory forms when neurons in these key brain structures are simultaneously activated by glutamate and an electrical pulse, a result of everyday sensory experience.

Without seeing the brain's wiring on a synaptic level, some neuroscientists believe we'll never truly understand how it works.

«One camp of neuroscientists believe that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them, and that the area or areas of the brain that do one, also do the other, but our study suggests this isn't the case,» says Glezer.

The left hemisphere, which neuroscientists believe controls early speech production, lit up most brightly.

Wörgötter and his colleagues designed RunBot to walk almost automatically, with a simple set of control circuits analyzing data from sensors in the legs and making minor adjustments along the way — a process similar to that of human walking, some neuroscientists believe.

«It was apparent that connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact before 24 weeks of gestation and, as most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the foetus can not experience pain in any sense prior to this gestation,» it reads.

Neuroscientists believe that the pruning process makes the brain more efficient.

Neuroscientists believe that the answer lies deep within our subconscious mind and the brain processes that evolved to adapt to a much earlier period in our human history.

In those early years, and to a lesser degree today, many neuroscientists believed that the brain is compartmentalized — that visual information, for instance, goes straight from the eye to the visual cortex through a fixed network of nerves.

In Delgado's heyday, neuroscientists believed that the brain employed just a single, simple coding scheme discovered in the 1930s by Lord Edgar Adrian, a British neurobiologist.

12 Until the 1970s neuroscientists believed that the human brain stopped developing after a certain age.

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I'll take you at your word regarding your recommendation to study and suggest you read WHAT GOD DOES TO YOUR BRAIN by two neuroscientists, Andrew Newberg who is a «theist» (believes in some kind of divine character) and Mark Waldman and agnostic (a non commit on the question).

For instance, after I had presented a long and careful account of the notion that the basic actualities that make up the world are sentient creatures, a very intelligent and scholarly neuroscientist said to me, «I still can't imagine what it would be like for an atom to have feelings, and I still can't see any good reason to believe this in the first place.»

Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age.

How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age.

Over the last decade, neuroscientists have largely come to believe that physical pain and social pain are processed by the brain in the same way.

Neuroscientists at the University of California at Irvine have tested Price's abilities and believe her phenomenal memory may be the result of a neurodevelopmental disorder.

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.

Recently neuroscientists have implanted single electrodes in the cortex to record the activity of single neurons believed to be associated with a single thought or image.

That combination has attracted neuroscientists such as Butterworth, who believe that the disorder illuminates the inner workings of the brain's number sense — the ability to understand and manipulate quantities.

Neuroscientists don't agree on exactly which parts of the brain compose this network, but they now believe it is one of the busiest neurological systems.

Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp believes diminishing classroom playtime could be responsible for the recent rise of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Last winter, neuroscientist Michael Campos believed he had a chance of being one of the few, fortunate postdocs to land a tenure - track job at a highly respected university, even in the midst of an escalating economic crisis.

Neuroscientist Christian Marquardt believes that a tailored training program, which analyzes the technical issues athletes encounter in tense situations, can help them overcome the yips.

Neuroscientists and psychologists believe RIF prevents us from becoming confused between information we've made an effort to learn and closely related information we didn't strive to learn.

Kozai believes that it is a pivotal time to investigate these cells and recognizes Dr. Ben Barres, an acclaimed neuroscientist at Stanford University, who made crucial discoveries in glial cell research.

The nucleus accumbens is believed to be responsible for pleasant surprises, or «positive prediction error,» as neuroscientists call it.

But there's no reason to believe placental iron is better than other sources of iron, says nutrition expert and neuroscientist Nicole Avena of Columbia University.

Terrence Sejnowski, a computational neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, believes that neural noise can contribute to human creativity.

The firing of a single neuron is believed to be the basic unit of brain computation, and these studies are accomplished through the collaboration of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons, with the consent and participation of patients who undergo deep brain electrode placement for diagnostic or treatment procedures.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

Though their purpose and function are still largely unknown, mirror neurons in the brain are believed by some neuroscientists to be central to how humans relate to each other.

That kind of open communication is the way to make swift progress on the big questions that face neuroscientists today, he believes.

Yet their work can backfire, and neuroscientists now believe that microglia will provide insights to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and autism.

But there are actually lots of neuroscientists who believe in free will.

Until the 1970s, neuroscientists largely believed that by the time we reach adulthood the architecture of the brain is hard - wired and relatively inflexible.

We experience the world through our five senses, but neuroscientist Don Katz believes that we may actually have only one, all - encompassing sense: the chemosensory system.

Neuroscientists at UC Berkeley believe that when we get deep, restorative sleep at night, it helps transfer the memories in your hippocampus — which provides short - term storage for memories — to the prefrontal cortex's longer term «hard drive.»

Many neuroscientists conclude that there are God centers in the brain where resides a natural impulse to believe in and call upon a supreme spiritual being.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman believes that secrets create a «neural conflict.»

According to research conducted by neuroscientist Dr. Jaak Panksepp, there are seven distinct «emotional command systems» believed to be present in each person's brain.