Sentences with phrase «noted brain scientist»

In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, Eric R. Kandel, the noted brain scientist, states that painting — from the Renaissance until fairly recently — sought to create the illusion of the three - dimensional world on a two - dimensional canvas.

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------------------------------------------------- Thirdly, on another related note, thanks to my friend Melissa for sharing the article: Scientists make gut - brain connection to autism.

Scientists measured brain activity and noted a tightening of the eyelids just after the babies heard the musical tone.

Scientists have noted that the blood - brain barrier is weakened in some diseases such as epilepsy or in cases of dementia, he says, but the stress findings are novel.

The scientists observed that, when hearing and memorizing notes, amusics exhibited altered sound processing in two regions of the brain: the auditory cortex and the frontal cortex, essentially in the right hemisphere.

The scientists noted that in the area of the brain containing the serotonin - producing nerve cells, miR135 levels increased when antidepressant compounds were introduced.

Scientists not involved in the study noted that not only is it the first to demonstrate widespread anatomical changes in the pregnant human brain, but that it goes further by showing that the changes last for at least 2 years.

As noted in the paper published in May in PLoS ONE, other scientists had previously found that divergent thinking, or the ability to «think outside the box,» involves the brain's dopamine communication system.

The link between brain size and social living was first noted in 1850, when scientists identified mushroom bodies in the insect brain.

Romantic love may be linked to addiction in the brain, but it is possible to break the habit, though it's not easy, says study researcher Helen E. Fisher, PhD, an anthropologist and noted relationship scientist at Rutgers University.

The main themes — what the scientists call «syllables» — are composed by the higher structures, but the individual notes get filled in by the lower brain regions.

One last note: scientists in Spain have reported in Science that they can generate a variety of smart mice by putting the RGS14 gene on overdrive in a part of the brain where it's not usually turned on.

Achor notes that, «Scientists estimate that we remember only one of every 100 pieces of information we receive; the rest gets filtered out, dumped into the brain's spam file.»