Sentences with phrase «on brain patterns»

Not exact matches

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

(I just heard something about a leap forward in understanding brain electrical patterns in language speech / recognition on the BBC, but I missed where.

Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

Bees home in on brilliant ultraviolet patterns that we see as plain white daisies; pigeons can literally align themselves to magnetic north because of magnetite in their brains.

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.

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.

As a result, there is less physiological wear - and - tear on the body, and the brain is more likely to develop a long - term pattern of resilience to stress.

Much of the available brain research takes place on animals that tend to mirror human patterns of forming pair bonds and co-parenting.

According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

This helps you remember what times things occurred (because your lack - of - sleep brain isn't as good at remembering on its own) and helps you recognize patterns (good and bad).

Having a record in writing, instead of relying on scrambled mental notes in your sleep - deprived brain, will give you a more accurate picture of your child's patterns and your own responses.

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New research suggests that these techniques can have detrimental physiological effects on the baby by increasing the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, with potential long term effects to emotional regulation, sleep patterns and behavior.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

«The brain develops pathways based on learned patterns,» says love expert Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.

Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data.

These patterns occur at predictable frequencies that depend on what a person is doing and on what part of the brain is active during the behavior.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

«Our research looked for such common patterns in brain development by providing the first data on brain growth for three species of marsupial mammals and the results show that this hypothesis does not work.

The technology, part of an 18 - month, $ 2.4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) undertaking, relies on electroencephalography (EEG) to detect the cascade of neural firing patterns in your brain when you spot something novel or interesting, even if you're unaware of it.

In this work, researchers have identified a functional brain pattern in the prefrontal cortex, associated with cognitive processes, and have used it to activate a screen on a touch device (an iPad touchscreen).

Vargas - Irwin used an analysis technique he developed, called SSIMS, that can accurately detect patterns of activity in collections of neurons without relying on any assumptions about what the brain is trying to do.

ELECTRICAL shocks that simulate the patterns seen in the brain when you are learning have enhanced human memory for the first time, boosting performance on tests by up to 30 per cent.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.

This result opens up the possibility that human brains share common linguistic restrictions on the sound pattern of language.

Instead of the brain computing a colour based on the numerical ratio of different colour amounts detected by the photoreceptors, the photoreceptors respond in a particular pattern, which is then sent to the brain.

Remarkably, a similar pattern emerged in participants» brain responses: worse - formed syllables (e.g., lbif) exerted different demands on the brain than syllables that are well - formed (e.g., blif).

Instead, Faro and Mohamed say that developing this method into a viable lie - detection system will depend on discovering complex patterns of brain behavior linked to lying.

The localization of these patterns in the brain further sheds light on their origin.

One showed how the brain derives an object's three - dimensional shape: Falling light creates a shadow pattern on the object, and by interpreting the shading, the brain grasps the object's shape.

The patterns were surprisingly consistent from person to person, to the extent that the researchers could predict, based on brain activity, the feelings of an individual who had never been scanned before.

Meanwhile, in a separate room, grad student Chris Larson watches the woman on a video screen and records the shifting pattern of electrical impulses in her brain.

«If you look at brain signaling on the level of individual neurons, it looks very mysterious, but if you take a step back and observe the activity of a population of hundreds of neurons instead, you might see simpler, clearer patterns that intuitively make more sense.»

A computer algorithm processed the monkey's brain activity, homing in on patterns of neurons firing as it learned to do the task.

Kellman, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, works on «perceptual learning» — harnessing the brain's formidable abilities in pattern recognition to teach complex skills and concepts.

Delving into the relevant neurobiology, Goldberg points to a growing body of evidence that the brain's left hemisphere is oriented toward familiar patterns, whereas the right hemisphere focuses on novelty.

Also, the patterns of brain activity that we see on imaging when they are lying down may not be the patterns that the brain produces during normal upright activity.»

Neurons early on, say, in the eye, will respond to the chiaroscuro patterns of the photographs no matter what the brain the eye is attached to sees.

However, the same algorithm that helps our brain track motion can be tricked by the pattern motion of an object, such as the seams on a spinning baseball, which causes our brain to «see» the ball suddenly drop from its path when, in reality, it curves steadily.

As a result, genes in their brains switched on and off in an abnormal pattern.

«When you move the game controller in exactly the right way to earn that high score, your brain remembers how it executed that action — which neurons get switched on, and in what pattern — so your brain can recreate that same move the next time you play,» said Dr. Costa, who also a professor of neuroscience and neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

The techniques, known as multivoxel pattern analysis and representational dissimilarity analysis, showed which songs Sting found similar to one another and which ones are dissimilar — based not on tests or questionnaires, but on activations of brain regions.

Michael Shermer is spot on about the human brain's pattern - seeking abilities, but not about the reasons why people engage in...

His reputation was cinched when Stephen Colbert, on Comedy Central's Colbert Report, asked Pinker to explain how the brain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rbrain works in exactly five words, and he replied, «Brain cells fire in patterns.&rBrain cells fire in patterns.»

But brain cells that had been created using the direct conversion technique had different patterns of gene expression depending on whether they were created from young donors or older adults.

Meaningful progress in cognitive neuroscience depends on mapping patterns of brain activity, which are constantly and rapidly changing with every experience we have.