Sentences with phrase «own brain mapping»

Neuroscientists have discovered through fMRI brain mapping and imaging that when a person is in fear, doubt or even worry (which is just baby fear), that half of the brain shuts down.

A few years ago, Ragini Verma, an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues identified differences in brain maps, or how regions connect.

We can trigger one in a person having their brain mapped prior to cutting and removing brain tissue.

Primewonk — «We can trigger one in a person having their brain mapped» Can you program the experience?

The brain maps the world and makes the connections out of which adaptations emerge and take form.

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains to build the most comprehensive mammalian brain map yet.

«Rather than merely brain mapping, we can start to address more biologically specific questions like, «How do individual differences in axon diameter correlate with differences in impulsivity?

For instance, it seems to be necessary for refining the brain maps that differentiate among auditory frequencies.

«New brain mapping tool produces higher resolution data during brain surgery.»

For the first study, which was published in February in Human Brain Mapping, 20 people were shown a video of a hand being poked with a pin and then asked to imitate photographs of faces displaying a range of emotions — happy, sad, angry and excited.

But that will still represent a huge advance, since scientists currently have no global brain map at all.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Europe.

IT»S not quite as simple as X marks the spot, but uncovering the roots of neural disorders should be much easier now that we have a complete brain map.

«Brain mapping using depth electrodes represents a potential alternative to the WADA test in cases where the side of speech dominance is uncertain,» said Dr. Miller.

This major international effort is pooling the snapshot scans of 1,200 individuals to create a generic, but authoritatively thorough, baseline brain map.

During that waiting period, the brain prepares for a shock in different ways, depending on whether the jolt is certain or uncertain, Lamm and his colleagues reported last February in Human Brain Mapping.

«This could be a potential mechanism for capturing its space,» Catania told Nature, «and could relate to how brain maps are developing more generally.»

Stolk plans future studies with Knight using fine - tuned brain mapping on the actual surfaces of the brains of volunteers, so - called electrocorticography.

Presenting at a recent conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at once.

This approach yields brain maps that are collectively known as the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas.

The researchers next conducted a variety of brain mapping experiments to locate where in the brain these crucial seizure - gene interactions take place.

The brain activities during negative social emotions such as shame, guilt and contempt, in turn, resemble each other most but differ from the brain maps of basic negative emotions.

The classifier algorithm makes more mistakes with distinguishing emotions that have similar brain maps than with emotions whose brain maps have little in common.

In a paper recently published in Human Brain Mapping, a team of researchers from the Quebec - based Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment shows how the in utero environment can play a role in the development of brain processes.

The researchers were particularly interested in emotion - specific brain maps, that is, maps on the localisation of emotions in various areas across the entire brain.

Saarimäki and her colleagues discovered that the brain maps of basic emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, fear, surprise and disgust were to some extent similar across people.

Neurosurgeon Mitchel Berger at U.C. San Francisco conducts hands - on «brain mapping» of language functions in advance of surgery to remove tumors.

This is the first example of a brain map that reflects the topology of an object in our environment, says Henriksson.

Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark - centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe, lights rotate around darks in the brain representation of visual space.

As part of a project led by molecular engineer George Church of Harvard University, the technique was selected last month to receive a $ 21 million, 5 - year brain mapping grant, one of six new projects under the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks, or MICrONS, program, sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

Look at submission, revision, and resubmission «as an iterative process,» suggests Phil Corlett, a postdoc at the Brain Mapping Unit at Cambridge.

At the 1998 Human Brain Mapping conference in Montreal, Canada, a poster on fMRI caught her attention.

But body - to - brain mapping has a peculiar aspect: Although the body is the thing mapped, it never loses contact with the mapping entity, the brain.

Damasio: What is so fascinating is the limitation of the reasoning space — the screens in which we exhibit our brain maps.

Brain maps are mercurial, changing from moment to moment to reflect the changes that are happening in the neurons that feed them, which in turn reflect changes in the interior of our body and in the world around us.

One big difference is that the lines in a brain map are not drawn with quill or pencil; they are, rather, the result of the momentary activity of some neurons and of the inactivity of others.

The corresponding brain maps change accordingly.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was funded by a special research project of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)(SFB - 35, led by Harald Sitte) and presented as a highlight at the international conference on «Organization for Human Brain Mapping.»

Annese hopes this will open the door to new Web - based neuroanatomy initiatives such as collaborative brain mapping to annotate the images.

NIRSIT allows the researchers to monitor the subject's brain activation changes and analyze the results in an intuitive way, using both the 3D brain mapping images as well as the oxy - deoxy graphs covering the prefrontal area of the brain.

Two marvelous groups do brain mapping: the Laboratory of Neuro - Imaging and the Crump Institute.

«Brain maps highlight autism disorders.»

Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individuals.

The study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, is one of the largest and most comprehensive experiments of individual differences in decision - making conducted to date, the researchers said, with 304 healthy adult participants.

The brain maps further revealed ASD individuals had both excessive slow and fast waves in the frontal lobe.

In the scientific journal Human Brain Mapping they illustrate how a self - learning algorithm decodes human brain signals that were measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG).

An unprecedented brain map that is set to transform studies of neuroscience and brain disease.

The team then used software to plot clustering data from six people on a single brain map, pictured below.

Current brain maps are low resolution; it's as if you can see major landmarks, but not local streets.

«With our brain map, researchers could look for circuitry - specific drug discovery,» Dong said.