Sentences with phrase «number of neurons become»

For instance, when a person sees a clock, only a small number of neurons become active, enough to do pattern matching that draws upon the brain's memory of a clock and compares it with the object's basic features — its round shape, the presence of numbers — to draw a conclusion that this thing is a clock.

Not exact matches

«More likely, those long - term memories become inaccessible after a significant number of neurons are lost.»

As the number of neural synapses declined, the Müller glia also became sickly, pulling their branches away from neurons and dividing haphazardly.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

Their number neurons could have become specialized independently of each other.

Despite the elegance, simplicity and beauty of this principal, it is still unclear how the number of parasympathetic neurons is controlled and why only some of the cells transported by nerves are transformed into that which becomes an important part of the nervous system», says Igor Adameyko at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology who, together with Patrik Ernfors at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, is responsible for the study.