Sentences with phrase «other areas in the brain»

Connections coming from other areas in the brain tend to link to individual digits while connections that originate within the area tend to link to multiple digits,» said Roe.

Not exact matches

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

«Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas.»

That means that brain - training programs, intelligence - exercising puzzles, or other efforts to increase IQ in general are largely wasted effort (becoming a subject area expert is another matter entirely).

But, if you are the one to offer the contrast for the other end of the scales (in picture form, of course), then you'll be speaking to the action - area of their brain: «If you're thinking you're busy — too busy to make it — then it's you this weekend is for.

Glutamate is the No. 1 excitatory transmitter in the brain,» Melillo said, adding that it can excite certain areas of the brain more than others, causing an imbalance.

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.»

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.

Other research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner tissue in the area of the brain that's associated with attention.

«But breast milk has been shown to be helpful in other areas of development, so we looked to see what effect it might have on the brain.

Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and other areas of development.

Although the role of the visual cortex and other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.

The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an area of the brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and other functions that was not found in the brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellIn 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellin the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

These neurons, he believed, somehow turned up or down the «volume» of the neurons he'd recorded in other areas of the brain.

«As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.

Brain areas involved in emotion are less active in such people, but this can't explain other behaviour common to psychopaths, such as drug abuse.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

«In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to other brain areas and functions.»

To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in other areas of the brain as well.

In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.

You're also known for discovering that the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain essential to decision - making and our ability to behave appropriately around others, is compromised in the brains of addicts.

Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the brain displayed regional differences, with some areas of the brain showing increases in variability across age while other areas showed a decrease.

Brain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedBrain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedbrain is simply turned off.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

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.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

Yet researchers are still trying to understand how activity in this hypothalamus - adjacent area could conjure the condition — and to determine what other glitches in brain structure, metabolism or interactions contribute to sufferers» throbbing noggins.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

«We think that this brain activity organization is letting neurons talk to neurons in other areas,» says Muller.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areaIn the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areain overlapping networks of brain areas.

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.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

Similar findings were also seen in other areas of the brain that are known for being important in emotional regulation.

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.

Additional brain loss occurs in other areas of the brain in those who do manifest depressive symptoms.

«In both humans and voles, we believe other brain areas are likely involved too, including the amygdala, a brain area important for attaching positive or negative importance of specific stimuli to motivate behavioural responses.»

Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many other brain areas contributed to the processing of images in volunteers who received LSD.

«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.

Previous studies have shown that when people are observed, brain activity jumps in areas of the brain known for thinking about others, even if people aren't doing anything that others could judge.

The nature of senior moments led scientists to believe they stem from disruptions in the hippocampus — an area that, among other roles, acts as the brain's «save» button, allowing us to retain new information.

Over the past 50 years, we have learned more about the visual parts of the brain than any other areas, and we have a solid understanding of how neural activity leads to visual perception in a typical brain.

The patient's brain signals were decoded by an electrocorticographic (ECoG) implant that can cover a large area of the brain, taking in and translating information from many groups of neurons and providing more stable readings than have been achieved through other methods.

Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.

In the hindbrain, an area which is the predecessor for some adult parts of the brain, this was the other way around.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Furthermore, she found that in these women, the posterior insula and the precuneus — areas of the brain responsible for motor processing, pain perception and visuospatial imagery — were significantly thicker and more connected to each other than in male migraineurs or in those without migraines.