Sentences with phrase «of neural activity for»

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Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

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.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

For decades, it has been well established that for parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical areFor decades, it has been well established that for parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical arefor parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical areas.

The use of the neural cortical activity for operant conditioning tasks has existed for decades.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

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.

«We are now exploring whether the method can also be used to control neural activity as a means for noninvasively modulating the activity of neural circuits.»

And researchers hope that scanning the brains of subjects engaged in such tasks will reveal clues about the neural activity required for conscious awareness.

Conducting studies on brain synchrony — neural activity that is in sync among people — in real - world settings offers a great opportunity for new types of data, Dikker says.

Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity.

Brain scans revealed activity in the fusiform face area, responsible for recognising real faces, they report in «Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia» (doi.org/vn8).

«Deep» nets contain anywhere from three to hundreds of layers, the last of which distills all of this neural activity into a singular prediction: This is a picture of a cat, for example.

She went to work setting up a new series of fMRI studies for observing neural activity in the visual cortex of awake macaque monkeys.

This new understanding would not only protect people from being denied access to treatment for mental illness but would also protect all of us from harmful manipulations of our neural activity through the misuse of technology.

But neural activity for the uncued item quickly dropped to baseline, as if it had been forgotten, whereas the EEG signature of the cued item remained, a sign that it was still in working memory.

In the hippocampus, a major component responsible for memory, neural activity, synapse formation and expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were reduced in these mice (Image 2).

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can record the activity of neural networks; information processing technology that can handle the flood of data generated by BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories

«We examined the impact of beliefs about cravings prior to and after smoking while also measuring neural activity,» said Gu, who also serves as the head of the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Center for BrainHealth.

For the purpose of the study, Slomowitz grew a neural network on an array of electrodes and recorded the activity of single individual neurons in the network.

Researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, have discovered a new molecular «switch» that controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network.

During training sessions for BrainGate, the computer software learns to associate patterns of neural activity with the intent to move a hand in a particular direction; it can use those intentions to pilot a computer cursor or, if all goes as planned, a motorized wheelchair.

After the tests, the scans of neural activity happening in areas known for facial recognition — as well as other types of visual recognition — were statistically identical for both men and women.

Although ATP acting on neural P2X receptors is crucial for transmission of all taste qualities (Finger et al., 2005; Vandenbeuch et al., 2015), the role of other substances acting as neurotransmitters, cotransmitters, or modulators of neural activity is less clear (Kaya et al., 2004; Huang et al., 2005; Jaber et al., 2014; Takai et al., 2015).

But neural activity in regions associated with the self and with social considerations serves as a type of common denominator for various types of social and self - related thinking.

This result, however, might not necessarily mean that IAA plays no significant role in this defensive behavior because the Acks induction was not clearly observed in the ALs of the Japanese honeybee workers even after the seizure - induction, suggesting that Acks might not be applicable for detection of neural activity in the ALs (data not shown).

They give animals a specific stimulus — a pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how neural activity depends upon the stimulus.

There are two possible explanations for this result: 1) The neural activity detected in the brains of workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball reflects thermal stimuli processing in the brain.

Thus, we concluded that Acks could be utilized as a marker of neural activity that occurred 30 to 60 min before in the brains of Japanese honeybees, although we could not detect the spotted signal in the antennal lobes (ALs, primary olfactory center), suggesting that Acks, like kakusei, is not useful for detecting neural activity in the ALs (data not shown).

It is plausible that some MB neurons that receive thermal information from peripheral neurons expressing TRP channels and / or other MB neurons expressing TRP channels themselves are responsible for the increased neural activity in the MBs of heat - exposed workers.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

«This shows that measuring high frequency variability during this early critical window of postnatal development has value for identifying NEC risk at a time when symptoms are not evident and interventions to improve the parasympathetic nervous system activity can be given,» said researcher R. Alberto Travagli, professor of neural and behavioral sciences.

The rats all developed two separate fears, one for each tone, which showed up in brain scans as increased neural activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain directly related to fear.

Once the Vanderbilt small molecule library has been screened for potential modulators of the Y4 receptor, I will use the results to design efficient and accurate descriptors that can be used with artificial neural networks to predict activity at the Y4 receptor based on a small molecule's structural properties.

THE 2016 KAVLI PRIZE IN NEUROSCIENCE is awarded to Eve Marder, Michael M. Merzenich, and Carla J. Shatz «for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function.»

Neurotransmission is fundamental to both mental and physical activities, and it is also essential for the initial wiring and reconfiguration of neural circuits throughout the lifetime of an organism.

This year's laureates were selected for the direct detection of gravitational waves, the invention and realization of atomic force microscopy, and for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function.

The fMRI measures blood flow for instance, which is an indicator of increased neural activity.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Neurona will utilize human stem cell derivatives for the treatment of diseases caused by dysregulated neural activity.

The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) is a leader among National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) in actively ensuring accessibility of its physical spaces, activities and resources.

A new journal publication released this month in Nature Science Reports, «Highly Stable Glassy Carbon Interfaces for Long - Term Neural Stimulation and Low - Noise Recording of Brain Activity» features the recent progress in this research.

They receive the prize «for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function».

At the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, the INNF is supporting a revolutionary project to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the onset of disease by recording the neuronal activity of brain structures controlling movement, sleep, and learning and memory.

The significance of the -LRB-...) findings centers on providing an improved understanding of the neuromuscular system through «elite aging» and provides support into the favorable value of long - term physical activity and exercise for protecting neural function.

Choline is a fat that is specifically responsible for increasing muscle contractibility and also the ability of neural circuits to learn new complex activities like moving a muscle or moving your legs to a higher and higher turnover doing something like a hundred meter sprint so choline, you can get that from things like walnuts, fish, eggs, make sure you eat the eggs with the yolk.

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