Sentences with phrase «other brain processes»

These discoveries could prove important in finding ways to stimulate and improve learning, and in understanding myelin's involvement in other brain processes, such as in cognition.

Not exact matches

Other research suggests that the perceived passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb; when you're young, everything seems new, which means your brain has more to process... which means the perceived passage of time feels longer.

«If you don't write things down, you end up cluttering your mind, leaving less memory storage for more important things,» Wong says, «and less brain capacity for other process, including creativity.»

There is nothing more to NDE's other than the brain going through a shutdown process.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

You might not realize someone is looking at you on a conscious level, but your eyes in your peripheral vision or any other stimuli might still go into your brain and get processed and outputted as a response before you are consciously aware.

Whey isolate and other more processed options generally have higher protein concentrations but at the cost of highly beneficial nutrients including those that can benefit your bone, brain and cardiovascular health.

MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, the same neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas, and other organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

You can have the realisation that using a certain word is wrong because of how it can make others feel, but that doesn't mean the part of your brain that processes language is suddenly going to stop it coming to you mind in those moments you would have previously used it.

Your kind are so single minded that it hurts my brain in processing and dissecting the few of yous that do make sense and come across intelligent from the single and narrow mindedness of the other 95 %.

My brain is distracted — trying to process other things — and I've been making stupid mistakes like burning my fingers or thinking I'm taking a shortcut somewhere only to discover I'm going very much out of my way.

In other words the brain takes in information from the senses and over time learns to process and make sense of the new sensory input.

DAWN THOMPSON: By the way that also helps establish breast milk guys, it also helps all those oxytocin, we release all these other things in your brain, we are just messing with the process way too much so every opportunity that we can to get back to the normal natural process of childbirth is important and that includes how we treat the babies when they come out.

Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with brain imaging techniques and the findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our brains process the distinction between us and «others».

Brain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information ocBrain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information ocbrain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information occurs.

Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

The newfound ability to measure sound processing in the brain has led to other important discoveries in neuroeducation by Kraus and her team.

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.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

They find that after only 90 minutes, blindfolded people can develop a keener sense of touch — a sign that the portion of the brain dedicated to vision can help process other senses.

Could the Boskop brain have achieved the ability to retrieve one memory while effortlessly processing others in the background, a split - screen effect enabling far more power of attention?

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

We are not aware that we are seeing such images, but other parts of the brain may process the information nonetheless.

These changes affect normal brain processes, such as development or memory, and abnormal brain processes, such as depression, drug dependence, and other psychiatric disease — and can pass down to subsequent generations.

To understand speech, as for other cognitive or sensory processes, the brain breaks down the information it receives to integrate it and give it a coherent meaning.

«Even a moderate dose of psilocybin weakens the processing of negative stimuli by modifying amygdala activity in the limbic system as well as in other associated brain regions,» continues Krähenmann.

The more researchers may attempt to look at a single processing question, the more it turns out to be interrelated with many other things going on in the brain.

What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.

The bouba / kiki dynamic, along with other similarity - detecting processes in the brain, can be imagined as the basis of the creation of an endless series of metaphors, which could correspond to a boundless vocabulary.

14 Other clues about language processing come from damaged brains.

At the same time, these are cognitive processes like many others — reasoning, remembering, decision - making — and as such must originate in the brain.

Researchers traced the hormone's path from the skeleton to the hypothalamus — a brain structure that maintains blood sugar levels and body temperature and regulates other processes.

The team focused on the primary auditory cortex, which is the first cortical region to receive auditory signals from the ears via other parts of the brain, and the nonprimary auditory cortex, which plays a more sophisticated role in processing those stimuli.

Gazzaley wanted to take a broader view of the brain to answer questions about memory and aging; he hoped to study how distinct neural regions interact during memory formation and other complex cognitive processes.

Sweatt believes that his findings in the hippocampus apply to other regions involved in memory processing, including the cortex, the brain's outermost layer, and the amygdala, two almond - shaped structures in the midbrain.

The researchers also wanted to see how the beneficial effects of cannabidiol may depend on changes in the molecular signaling processes that certain brain neurons use to communicate with each other.

Overall, Bergen suggests that our use of profanity may provide new insights into how our brain works, how we process language and how we communicate with others.

Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress - related disorders show increased activity in the right hemisphere of the brain — and in emotional, nonverbal processing — and decreased activity in the left, according to neuroimaging studies.

«On the other hand, if these seemingly different abilities are carried out by overlapping cognitive mechanisms or brain areas, then experience with musical pitch processing should affect language pitch processing, and vice versa.»

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.

Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.

This work, published in May in the journal Brain, adds invaluable information to our understanding of amusia and, more generally, of the «musical brain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of mBrain, adds invaluable information to our understanding of amusia and, more generally, of the «musical brain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of mbrain,» in other words the cerebral networks involved in the processing of music.

«We have known for a long time that the brain prioritizes threatening information over other cognitive processes,» explained Bambi DeLaRosa, study lead author.

«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.

«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»

A PATIENT who can not read fear on other people's faces has given researchers a valuable clue to how the human brain processes emotions.

Her confusion shows for the first time that the brain processes fear and mixed emotions through a different pathway from those used to process other feelings.

The brain's insular cortex, which processes senses and emotions, controls reactions like approach to or avoidance of others through the action of the hormone oxytocin, a team of Boston College researchers reports in the latest edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience.