Sentences with phrase «of neural structures»

This is necessary in injuries where there is excess neural tension or restriction of movement of neural structures, commonly around the neck and shoulder girdle, or pelvis area.

Another set of neural structures that may not contribute directly to conscious experience are subcortical structures such as the basal ganglia.

Together, these findings suggest that while high levels of FoxP2 are important for normal development of neural structures, low levels may enable the fine - tuning of these structures during vocal motor exploration [37].

A large set of neural structures serves to represent concepts; a smaller set forms words and sentences.

From these findings, it follows that morality can be described physically, as a complex interplay of neural structures and neural chemistry in the brain.

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Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.

Real diagnoses with artificial networks The software was based on an artificial neural network, a program that mimics the structure of biological brains and learns via adjustments in the strength of connections in its network.

Artificial neural networks are a type of artificial intelligence algorithm inspired by the structure of the human brain.

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.

Usually they discover about two weeks after conception by which time their developing embryo is about the size of a full stop, and the neural structure that will eventually grow into the baby's brain and -LSB-...]

Such findings suggest that the neural projections are the anatomical structures by which the visual cortex adjusts the plasticity of the optokinetic reflex, Scanziani said.

Just as DNA's structural logic dictates the functional logic of heredity, he reasoned, the structure of our neural circuitry must explain why we experience red as red, pain as painful, or ourselves as selves.

An area of the mouse hippocampus glows green, indicating that the new method of electrical stimulation excited neural activity in this deep brain structure.

Now, an international team of scientists has made inroads to understanding how genes influence brain structure and cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

Vargas - Irwin and his colleagues are continuing with experiments to determine how well the findings can be generalized — to a wider variety of objects, for instance — and how much the structure of the experiments and training affects the neural patterns.

The similar structures of fungal and neural networks, Stamets believes, reflect the fact that both systems evolved to do similar jobs — and do them with maximum efficiency.

They use a special type of neural network called a «deep neural network» to do the processing — so named because its learning is performed through a deep layered structure inspired by the human brain.

Alternatively, engineers have tried using more complex «neural networks» of sensors, which estimate the strain at a broken sensor based on readings from other sensors throughout the structure.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues found that male cockroaches can «see» fine structures of odor plumes, thanks to their finely tuned odor sensors on their antennae and neural circuits that convey spatial information to the brain.

Instead of looking for fossilised hair in therapsids Benoit and his colleagues used scanning technology to search for the neural structures which innervated hairs in therapsids.

«Eventually, we want to be able to image whole brains, as is, with this method to see the entirety of their neural networks and other structures.»

This almond - shaped structure behind the ear is Fear Central, the neural processing station that sends out warnings of perceived danger and threat.

The experiments revealed that this missing neural structure affects the pigeons» homing abilities, the scientists report in today's the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Pigeons that learned their way home with a blocked left eye couldn't repeat the same journey when they wore a patch over their right eye, and vice versa.

Unlike mammals, birds lack a key neural structure — the corpus callosum — that allows both hemispheres of the brain to access what an animal sees.

By tuning the knobs to satisfy millions of examples, the neural net creates a structured set of relationships — a model — that can classify new images or perform actions under conditions it has never encountered before.

Researchers at Blue Brain Project report groups of neurons bound into such cavities provide the missing link between neural structure and function, in their new study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue in the brain and is one of the most extensively studied brain structures in the field of neuroscience.

«Rather than colic reflecting digestive pain, as has often been assumed, we propose that it could be fear as the infant does more of what it is trying to reverse — that is, cry — becoming a victim of its own immature neural structures that are firing simultaneously and excessively.»

For example, an AI neural network optimized to recognize the discrete anatomical structures of the eye, such as the retina, cornea or optic nerve, can more quickly and efficiently identify and evaluate them when examining images of a whole eye.

Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have achieved notable success in a broad range of fields, including computer vision, in which they have produced results comparable to, and in some cases superior to, human experts.

An artificial neural network consists of a series of interconnected processing nodes, a system loosely based on the human brain's neural structure.

Prof. Fiona Doetsch's research team at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered that the choroid plexus, a largely ignored structure in the brain that produces the cerebrospinal fluid, is an important regulator of adult neural stem cells.

«Our prosocial and altruistic impulses play a very important role in sustaining complex societal structure,» explained Giorgia Silani, the principal investigator of this research conducted at SISSA and now a researcher housed in University of Vienna, «However, studying altruism and its neural basis in lab - based environment poses unique ethical challenges.

It reveals that «branching tree - shaped» flow patterns govern the structure of the entire universe — most clearly evident within rivers, neural networks, lightning bolts, electrical circuitry and trees.

Our method is a first step toward developing a new mathematical toolkit to uncover the structure of neural circuits with unknown function in the brain.»

«Our results demonstrate that even the simplest brain structures may play a fundamental role in complex neural processes of perception and attention,» said Frank Tong, professor of psychology at Vanderbilt, who conducted the study with postdoctoral fellow Michael Pratte and Sam Ling at Boston University.

For example, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene expression differences between the neural stem cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of different neural cell types arise much earlier in brain development than previously realized.

Several years ago, one of the students in Verma's lab noticed that BRCA1 is very active in the neuroectoderm, a sliver of embryonic tissue containing neural stem cells that divide and differentiate into the brain's vast assortment of cell types and structures.

To understand this evocative force, researchers in many fields, including information science, neural perception, and signal processing, investigate music's underlying structure, examining features such as the tone, timbre, and auditory and rhythmic features of a piece.

Their analysis revealed the existence of change points as well as periods of persistent gene community structure, including a dynamic community of genes involved in neural projection guidance that was highly active during the mid to late fetal period.

In studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structures.

Then it dials way down... leaving behind permanent changes in neural circuit structure that can cause low IQ, learning disabilities and hypersensitivity, along with other symptoms characteristic of ASD.

Low levels of BMPs allow dorsal cell fate specification (e.g., neural tissue; formation of head structures), whereas higher levels of BMPs direct ventral cell fate specification (e.g., epidermis, blood, formation of tail structures).

The graphic outlines, from left, interrelated variables in a simple statistical model, a neural network model with populations of neurons that capture the same structure, and a variant of the neural network collapsed into a more realistic overlapping configuration.

Comparison of the structure and nucleotide sequences of Acks and kakusei cDNAs revealed that the nucleotide sequences corresponding to +1946 b to +5175 b of Acks cDNA was equivalent to the kakusei cDNA corresponding to the neural activity - inducible transcript (Figure 1A).

Dr. Shanker's expertise, leadership, and motivation to structure and direct the current research will uncover underlying mechanisms of lymphocyte crosstalk, along with their interface with neural signaling.

It was previously thought that Pax3 was required for formation of certain structures in the early embryo, such as the neural tube, because it attaches to DNA and turns genes «on» or «off.»

Therefore, differences in the similarities of subjects» neural response time courses likely stem from factors such as differences in subjects» dispositions, moods, cognitive styles, pre-existing assumptions, expectations, values, views, and interests, as well as differences in the pre-existing knowledge structures into which incoming stimuli are integrated.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.