Sentences with phrase «of brain activity patterns»

Seymour says that even when the study subjects were simply resting, the researchers could see short moments of brain activity patterns with features of the specific fear memory.

Not exact matches

Those who gave away money showed a particular pattern of activity in their brains, but that wasn't the most interesting part of the findings.

It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.

From brain scans, Schwartz found that certain regions in the brain of OCD patients (the caudate nucleus in particular) exhibited abnormal patterns of activity.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

Scientists at the University of California discovered that when rats experience something new, their brains show new patterns of activity.

For conceptual acts like Schwartz's «mindful attention» to permanently alter patterns of brain activity that otherwise would remain stuck is therefore exactly what one would expect if the mind transcends the brain and yet is capable of physical effects.

By itself this finding is consistent with a materialist view of mind (if, as materialism requires, the brain enables the mind, then abnormal patterns of brain activity are likely to be correlated with dysfunctional mental states).

Equivalently, then, that successor presiding occasion prehends the mentality of its predecessor (s) in the dominant subsociety, not directly through spatial contiguity, but through the patterns of activity already present both in the brain as its immediate environment and in the entire organism as its overall field of activity.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

Furthermore, it would be externally detectable if its occasions are identical with the internal synthetic unity of the whole pattern of those externally identifiable patterns of brain wave activity that are known to be associated with consciousness.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15

For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that brain wave patterns deviate most from patterns of neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.

A new study pinpoints these distinct brain patterns of activity.

Patterns of Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed Mothers who Breastfeed and Bottle Feed: The Mediating Role of Infant Temperament.

It is also notable for its pattern of brain activity, which resembles that of the waking brain.

In traditional heterosexual partnerships where the mother is primary caregiver, mothers and fathers show similar but distinct patterns of brain activity in response to their child.

By analysing the patterns of brain activity when volunteers read or listened to sentences containing hard - to - detect semantic anomalies - words that fit the general context even though they do not actually make sense - the researchers found that when a volunteer was tricked by the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous word.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

This pattern of activity runs through vision - and taste - processing brain regions, indicating our subjective feelings are actually intertwined with perception.

Running the game while recording people's brain activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half of what their partner thought they had) showed similar brain patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.

While you lie there, daydreaming, the scientists in the room next door monitor the patterns of activity that flicker around in your brain.

The patterns of brain activity that accompany those similar early and late movements are actually completely different though.

When the same image was processed subconsciously, the researchers found that the patterns of brain activity were much more variable.

PATTERNS in brain activity can be used to determine whether someone is looking at a surrealist landscape by Salvador Dali or the cubist lines of Pablo Picasso.

That is because when the brain thinks about moving both arms at once, the activity is not merely a sum of what you might see if you moved each arm individually, but a completely different pattern.

And what was very interesting was that it was revealed that you could identify that the children of alcoholics had different patterns of brain wave activity than the children of the non-alcoholics, so it really seems to be a biologic predisposition.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

A set of fMRI recordings of subjects» temporal lobes backed up the team's hypothesis: each time a house or face was consciously processed by an individual, the resulting patterns in brain activity were similar.

People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical activity, but not light - intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.

So subsequently people have been looking at this type of brain activity and this brain activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again, showing that identical twins had more similar patterns than non-identical twins.

It is done using electrodes placed in the brain, which recognise specific patterns of electric activity that occur when a person thinks about moving.

A SIGNATURE pattern of brain activity has been found that could help determine whether brain - damaged patients are conscious.

And so we found a variant in one of the GABA receptors [that] is associated with alcoholism, and this fits in with some of the brain wave pattern activity that it looks like alcoholism [and] is linked to disinhibition, so [it's] a problem with the inhibition of brain waves that people should generally have.

Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing — and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.

And, surprisingly, the act of mating actually transformed the brain's activity patterns.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

Some research, for example, shows that patterns of brain activity can predict our choices or actions before we become consciously aware of having made a decision, and it may be hard to reconcile this evidence with the notion of free will.

Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.

By observing research subjects» brain activity as they were exposed to auditory stimuli, Kraus and her team discovered a distinct pattern in the auditory response of children who suffered concussions compared to children who had not.

Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.

The alterations were found in patterns of brain activity that reoccur, or «states» that the brain moves in and out of over time.

«When we learn, at first the brain tends to not produce new activity patterns, but to repurpose the activity patterns it already knows how to generate,» says Aaron Batista, an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

«When faced with a new task, we're finding that the brain is constrained to take the neural activity patterns that it's capable of generating right now and use them as effectively as possible in this new task.»

Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

Authors also prove that the selected pattern is connected to cognitive processes and not to motor or behavioral activity, which represents an important progress in the design of brain - machine interfaces.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.