Sentences with phrase «of brain researchers»

«Constructive criticism is still criticism in my theory,» says Richard Boyatzis, one of these brain researchers.

Next week, at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, the world's largest gathering of brain researchers, several of them will sit down together again to discuss science funding in an era of global brain projects.

I even asked a couple of brain researchers with kids if they've ever felt it.»

Not exact matches

In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

When Stanford researchers recently peered into the brains of students to see how attitude affects achievement, they found something startling.

The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

In a study published earlier this month, researchers at Michigan State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

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?

Study researchers suspect that exhausted people's brains may be forced to «go offline» and take a period of local sleep in shifts to continue to function throughout the day, so a good night's slumber may be the key to limiting these episodes.

Researchers compare this strange localized sleep to that of dolphins, who are able to rest underwater while some part of their brain stays active enough to remind them to surface for air every so often.

Researchers now have the data to prove that there's a far more complex system of sleep that happens in some areas of the brain while people appear to be awake and performing tasks.

While the researchers found significant changes in eight brain regions, there are two regions that are of particular importance to you.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently pooled data from more than 20 studies to understand how practicing mindfulness affects the brain.

«Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships,» writes researcher Etip Sinid.

The researchers found strengthened connectivity in a region of the brain where weakened connections have been linked with memory loss.

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.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

More broadly, a number of researchers have disputed the idea that playing brain games translates into any real - world value.

After the night with disrupted sleep, the researchers found people had higher levels of beta - amyloid proteins, the proteins that clump together and form the plaque found in Alzheimer's - afflicted brains, in the volunteers» spinal fluid.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

The researchers then used brain imaging to measure the functionality of peoples» white matter and had them take a series of cognitive tests designed to measure how sharp they were.

Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

(Researchers have found that bragging activates the same feeling of pleasure in the brain as money and food.)

Lehrer describes how researchers at Drexel College set out to study what happens in a person's brain when he or she experiences some sort of personal discovery.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Allowing your brain to freely associate disparate ideas, many researchers believe, facilitates this «eureka» moment, which perhaps helps explain why Newton stumbled upon the rule of gravity while resting under an apple tree, and why, anecdotally, the modern - day shower seems particularly conducive for runaway breakthrough moments.

When Harvard - trained brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte says she had a stroke of insight, she means it literally.

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.

The Canadian researchers wanted to know if these reluctant exercisers were missing out on a chance to experience some of the brain benefits of working out — could even a short, one - time bout of exercise temporarily improve brain function?

Researchers at Accera, in Broomfield, Colorado, believe that in some forms of impairment, brain cells are actually starving for glucose, the basic food of cells.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

The researchers also performed MRIs on all the participants and found that compared with the low - flavanol group, the 900 mg - a-day flavanol drinkers showed more activity in the dentate gyrus (an area of the brain located in the hippocampus and linked to the formation of new memories).

To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley recently unveiled a new experimental device for editing brain activity.

As Fred Wolf of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization further explains, that «extraordinarily high deletion rate came as a huge surprise,» and it effectively means that information is lost in the brain as quickly as it can be delivered — something the researchers say has «fundamental consequences for our understanding of the neural code of the cerebral cortex.»

According to the new model of brain activity that the researchers have devised, the answer to that is one bit per active neuron per second.

The mysteries of the brain may be virtually endless, but a team of researchers from two institutes in Göttingen, Germany now claim to have an answer for at least one question that has remained a puzzle: just how fast does the brain forget information?

Researchers can identify the parts of the brain responsible for these emotions and measure synaptic activity corresponding to them.