Sentences with phrase «of brain processes»

The left hemisphere of the brain processes meaning, while intonation is analyzed in the right hemisphere.

That portion of the brain processes sensory information to fashion memories and perceptions.

That in turn should change the way the animal behaves and the rest of the brain processes information.

The study, led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) and published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the most detailed understanding yet of the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol abuse.

To bring together the unique resources from a consortium of Atlanta colleges and universities to build a nationally recognized program that will (a) define the interaction of brain processes and complex behaviors, (b) create a cadre of interdisciplinary investigators focused on behavioral neuroscience, and (c) transfer relevant discoveries from the laboratory to the public.

The right side of the brain processes specific examples of things, while the left side processes more general concepts and categories.

The algorithm used by a computer model called the Boltzmann machine, invented by Geoffrey Hinton and Terry Sejnowski in 1983, appears particularly promising as a simple theoretical explanation of a number of brain processes, including development, memory formation, object and sound recognition, and the sleep - wake cycle.

In a paper recently published in Human Brain Mapping, a team of researchers from the Quebec - based Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment shows how the in utero environment can play a role in the development of brain processes.

Recent advances in neuroimaging allow a more sophisticated understanding of the brain processes underlying sound and vision.

In what follows I suggest how knowledge of brain processes and patterns of belief might converge, and then how that constellation might enhance an understanding of Byzantine and medieval architecture as tangible expressions of those beliefs.

If either of these brain processes is impaired, we lose focus.

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and stereoscopic depth perception and has developed tests for the diagnosis of retinal and optic nerve diseases.

Functional neuroimaging scans of the brain «in action» show how stressors influence which parts of the brain process incoming information and which regions direct behavioral responses.

Scientists are also learning that the amygdala, the area of the brain processing fear, develops earlier than the area that allows your teen to reason and control her emotions.

Different areas of the brain process the various aspects of emotion.

Not exact matches

Other research suggests that the perceived passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb; when you're young, everything seems new, which means your brain has more to process... which means the perceived passage of time feels longer.

Adult brains actually do grow new brain cells through the incredible process of neurogenesis, improving your memory, stabilizing your mood, and boosting your ability to handle stress.

While our brains certainly contribute to the process, we can't find our true purpose without stepping out of our analytical minds and connecting to what viscerally expands us and inspires us to take action.

Because the very action of creating goals has such a strong impact on brain activity, it's crucial to take the process seriously and stick to your decisions.

Something as simple as eating a more plant - based, less - processed diet makes energy more available to brain and can improve every aspect of willpower.

Among the questions researchers are asking: Does the process of innovating activate neuronal circuits in a particular part of the brain, the way that language, say, primarily activates circuits in parts of the brain's left hemisphere?

Mentioning that the human brain is made for visual processing, the study notes that people remember 80 % of what they see, and only 20 % of what they do.

Results showed those who were especially anxious fared better after viewing the images (i.e., showed a milder response in the amygdala, the part of the brain that helps process emotions), just as the images helped those who weren't even paying attention to them.

(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

But the potential customer processes those messages through a more primitive, instinct - aware part of the brain.

You allow your brain the capacity to relearn how to positively process information and reframe your point of focus.

It also speeds the incredible process of neurogenesis, actually helping us grow new brain cells.

Studies shows that when people are presented with facts and figures, smaller areas of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

Even a brief course of brain exercises can help older adults improve reasoning skills and processing speed for 10 years after the training ends, according to a recent federally sponsored study on cognitive training.

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

If you have clarity of focus, your brain will figure out how to bring the process of achieving your goals into your awareness.

Something as simple as eating a more plant - based, less - processed diet makes energy more available to the brain and can improve every aspect of willpower.

Unlike the non-dieters, the dieters tended to show a heightened response in the areas of their brains linked with processing rewards, and a lowered response in the parts of their brains linked with a sense of control.

Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

The spinal cord may be best understood as a thick data cable that processes and transmits the constant stream of electrical impulses that flow between your brain and the rest of your body, enabling motion and sensation.

Their innate coolness under pressure comes from a dysfunctional amygdala, the part of the brain that processes emotion.

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

One possible reason for this ability is that the very processes of learning two languages and switching back and forth between them train the brain to be more attuned to auditory information, Bak said.

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

Remotely, Delphi engineers will monitor data processed by the car's multi-domain controller, a sort of black box that acts as the car's brain.

Wolfe says that once they found the right factory who understood the molding process, they would need to make the ducks, they then picked their brains for the best suppliers of materials that would fit their requirements.

Not that the arrival of systems with more human decision - making processes means the obsolescence of the human brain.

Simply put, it gives the brain what one neuroscientist calls «greater bandwidth,» boosting the processing capacity of the affected brain cells by 3,000 %.

They're there, in our heads; but an aged hippocampus, the part of the brain chiefly responsible for the processing of memories, struggles with random requests for names and facts that lack associative properties.

Many of the spiritual aspects of ayahuasca are correlated with increased processing in the emotional centers of the brain.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.