Sentences with phrase «optic lobes»

Using Acks as a neural activity marker, we demonstrated that neural activity in the mushroom bodies, especially in Class II Kenyon cells, one subtype of mushroom body intrinsic neurons, and a restricted area between the dorsal lobes and the optic lobes was increased in the brains of Japanese honeybee workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball.

The team, which reported its findings online earlier this month in Palaeontology, found that the brain's optic lobes were particularly large; so were the cerebellum, which controls motor functions, and the olfactory region, where odors are processed.

The six - legged biomechanical hybrid can rise, hover, and fly on command, guided by a radio receiver that relays signals to electrodes connected to the insect's optic lobes and flight muscles.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

Scale bar is 2.5 cm and letters indicate parts of the brain: ce, cerebellum; el, endosseus labyrinth; fl, floccular lobe; ol, optic lobe; os, occipital sinus impression; pb, pituitary bulb; t, telencephalon; w, wulst.

OL, optic lobe; DL, dorsal lobe.

Not exact matches

The combination of the data sets into a three - dimensional surgical planning model allowed the surgeons to map multiple trajectories and choose the best one: through the posterior medial parietal lobe, superior to the optic radiations and posterior to the somatosensory cortex, to the lesion.

As of right now, my dog has no aura before the event and acts fine both during and after the episode, so I can only assume that it's something going on specifically in the occipital lobe of the brain or the optic nerve.