Sentences with phrase «of brains lit»

Lichtman's genetically engineered mice, with neurons that would express different colors, began to bear fruit — or rather, to yield spectacular images of brains lit up like Christmas trees.

When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.

We would see many other parts of your brain light up.

Throughout the song, different areas of his brain lit up like a mini-firework display.

they can see parts of her brain light up when she thinks of her father.

However, the fact that parts of the brain light up or fail to light up in depressed people is hardly proof that biochemical processes alone are responsible for depression.

Whether you take LSD or chant in church the same parts of the brain light up and make you feel «spiritual».

It turns out that specific areas of the brain light up in children who are read to more often.

Research shows that when a mother smells her baby, the pleasure centre of her brain lights up.»

Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, etc..

That is why, when we imagine a particular color, the right side of the brain lights up but the left side is left cold: The details of the daydream may seem real, but they don't apply to a larger reality.

Just like the same area of the brain lights up when you eat tasty food, have sex, or watch an action - packed film; a similar mechanism is at play as you increase discipline.

Watch out — the pleasure centers of the brain light up and the addiction and compulsion are fed.

The same parts of the brain light up when you're with someone you love and when you use cocaine.

Not exact matches

This lit up key areas of the brain on the fMRI scanner.

The condition mainly affects the retina, a layer at the back of the eyeball that picks up light and sends that info to the brain, where it's translated into images.

«When you tell your audience a story, the brain lights up like a freaking pinball machine,» says communication expert Leslie Ehm, who uses the principles of neuroscience in her leadership and presentation training with executives.

They've been studying deep sleep — the tier beyond light sleep and REM sleep — and found that using certain sounds to stimulate subjects» deep sleep can elevate the number of long - burst brain waves they experience.

To mitigate the hindrance of jet lag on productivity, a Finnish company named Valkee launched the HumanCharger, which transmits 12 - minute doses of UV - free white light directly through the ears and into the brain using small LED ear plugs.

In contrast, when a person feels the attributes of something that piques their interest but doesn't take it all the way to connection, the brain region known as the putamen lights up.

All of your primary senses enter at the base of your brain (the light blue shaded area below).

Nothing lights up the brain quite like the rich, lyrical melodies of composer Camille Saint - Saëns» The Swan, carefully played on a cello.

For example, when someone asks you a question about a specific person, this is the part of the brain that lights up.

The experiment, which Westen wrote about in his book «The Political Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response lighBrain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response lighbrain responsible for our fight - or - flight response light up.

But those light waves tell our brains that it's time to be awake and happy and alert instead of time to wind down and get some shuteye.

Wang is also the founder of Quantum Bakery and is the brains behind Glow, a pair of earbuds with laser light cords that had a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year.

The brain is very sensitive to light, and too much of it just before bed — from computer screens, televisions or bright reading lights — can trick the brain into thinking it's daytime.

I'm in the Laggard Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.

Just around the time that the nature of the dilemma crossed the border from impersonal to personal, I would see your amygdala and related brain circuits — your medial orbitofrontal cortex, for example — light up like a pinball machine.

We can actually see which parts of the brain «light up» when someone is involved in a deeply religious moment.

The amount of stimulation the light has on our eyeballs translate directly to our brain, overwhelming it with signals and the demand for needed associations.

Most «seeing the light» conversion experiences can be traced to some form of epilepsy, however if, in this hypothetical, there is no trace of brain abnormality, it would still be unwise to believe such a person's account.

What I said to Light (in different words) is that his / her comment made no sense, and that to accuse someone of not using a brain while not making sense yourself was certainly hypocritical.

I am not surprised at all at the neurological research showing that the same parts of the the brain, «light up.,» whether it is an image of a Mac or a religious deity.

In the light of this essential interdependence of mind and brain, spirit and body, we come to see that a disembodied soul is not only an unsatisfying state of existence to contemplate, but it is also bereft of any real meaning.

He looked like the sun, some said, huge rays of light bursting from his brain, his whole countenance changed, having been alone on the mountain with God without adequate protection.

In recent years some of these Calvinist thinkers have achieved the status of being something like the theological brain trust of American evangelicalism, but that development is now in the process of being critically reexamined in the light of responses to «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»

Same parts of the brain will light up on an FMRI «image.»

The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

The percipient qua external event is an effect of other events (e.g., light signals must reach the retina and brain for the wall to be green); and perceiving is conditioned by the percipient and its causal relations.

Greenness as a color is brought into being out of light waves by the eyes and brain.

Did it started off as a mass of white ball, then it slowly started developing nerves, retina, a cornea, and essentially a complex apparatus for capturing light and transmitting it via nerve cells to the brain?

When the physiologist who thinks that his science cuts off all hope of immortality pronounces the phrase, «Thought is a function of the brain,» he thinks of the matter just as he thinks when he says, «Steam is a function of the tea - kettle,» «Light is a function of the electric circuit,» «Power is a function of the moving waterfall.»

We've pinpointed those regions of the brain that «light up» in moments of prayer and meditation; we've changed the sociability patterns of many animals.

How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.

A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer.

There is but one theory, known to me, that casts any positive light on the ability of brain cells to furnish us with feelings.

A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

The purple and yellow crocus flowers that bloomed along my walkway this week are lighting up my brain with anticipation for the beauty of Springtime.

The lighting in the produce section has been carefully chosen and placed to make everything look as enticing as possible, both to convince you that, yes, this is the week to finally try making something with chayote, and to get your brain thinking that maybe, just maybe, it is feeling a tad peckish, as you begin your stroll toward the consumerist version of Oz.