Sentences with phrase «of different areas of the brain»

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

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.

ImPACT [Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing] and other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.»

Differences in the brain's processing of language: People who stutter process language in different areas of the brain.

There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

Areas of the brain develop at different rates.

Indeed, in a paper from the University of California, San Francisco, researchers claim to have done just that — identify a group of kids with pure SPD — and found that their brains are in fact different from controls in key sensory areas.

They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical areas from one side of the brain to the other.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

Furthermore, brain imaging data for these very elderly animals shows a slight loss of grey matter (neuronal cell bodies), an effect that the researchers have not yet explained, as well as significantly slowed atrophy of white matter (the neuronal fibers connecting different areas of the brain).

Playing tennis and moving around your house were chosen as they activate different areas of the brain, making it easy to distinguish between the two in a functional MRI scanner.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

Each of these subtypes has to form connections with a different area of the brain that processes visual information.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

The prefrontal cortex is continuously active throughout these processes, coordinating input from different areas of the brain.

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

This implies that different cortical areas, for instance those involving cognition vs. those involving perception of sensory stimuli, have evolved to tailor their local circuits to specific brain functions.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

White matter is the connective wiring that links different areas of the brain.

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

To rule out a placebo effect, a control group received TMS in a different area of the brain.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process...

The injury was not isolated to one area of the brain, and each individual had a different pattern of injury.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

Dirty Minds is not short on moments of insight, such as when Sukel discovers that an orgasm involves as many as 30 different areas of the brain.

He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.

«Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths: Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors.»

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

We know, for example, that different areas of the brain are involved in processing color and form of visual images.

Ross and her colleagues applied magnetic pulses to two different areas of the brain in 25 healthy adults.

When they followed the avatar's gaze, a different area of the brain, known to be involved in imagining what other people are thinking, was active.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

More complex memories, like the recollection of an event that happened to you, are stored in many different areas of the brain.

But doing your taxes won't help get an unwanted melody to go away, which might suggest that the brain areas that support musical recall are different from the brain areas that support other kinds of memory.

Ione Fine, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who studies brain changes and did not work on the project, says Amedi's work is the best evidence yet for functional constancy — the idea that areas of the brain do the same job even with different kinds of input.

To develop a comprehensive view of astrocyte gene expression, the duo used the technique in four very different areas of the mouse brain: two regions of the cortex and the hypothalamus and cerebellum.

«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions in key areas of the brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging process,» Reagh added.

However, in their experiment with longer - lasting ongoing pain, the EEGs gave the scientists a different picture: in this case, emotional areas of the brain became active.

«We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure different brain areas of our research subjects while they watched short segments of the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and James Bond movies,» explains Aalto University Associate Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen.

The amount of white matter — the bundles of axons that connect different parts of the brain — did not differ, nor did the overall surface area of the brain cortex.

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

It is known from recent studies that compassion is mediated through different areas of the brain associated with those both components of l empathy.

With so many different areas of science and technology to choose from, Colan says the show opted to create episodes around hot - button issues including aviation, bionics and mobility and waste management as well as more obscure topics including regenerative medicine and brain - to - computer interfaces.

In order to see what happened inside the brain during acquisition, 16 electrode pairs were inserted in the hippocampus and in different areas of the entorhinal cortex.

Through a «mapping» performed with magnetic resonance, they identified the affected part and the type and size of the lesion, and analyzed the connectivity between the different areas of the brain.

To determine which areas of the brain may contribute most to a patient's seizures, surgeons typically examine electroencephalograms (EEGs), which reveal electrical activity in different parts of the brain.

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