Sentences with phrase «parietal lobe activity»

An article in The Economist on April 14, 2011, cited a study by Carnegie Mellon University that used brain imaging to prove a 37 % decrease in parietal lobe activity when listening to someone talk on the phone.

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And they saw that more activity in the parietal lobe, the area responsible for most sensory input, corresponded with the subject's preference for a texture.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

They found a marked decrease in activity in the parietal lobes, an area in the upper rear of the brain.

And they all have decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain.

To examine the relationship between fMRI scans, patterns of neuronal activity and anatomical structure of the brain, the researchers examined the region of the parietal lobe of squirrel monkeys devoted to monitoring touch sensations.

While this was happening, the researchers measured the activity in two parts of the monkeys» brains, the parietal lobe and the frontal lobe, which is the next place neural signals are sent.

During the scenes, there's fingerprint - like activity in the prefrontal lobe and parietal lobe, both believed to be connected to memory retrieval and reinterpretation of previously seen events.

Newberg's scans showed that neural activity decreases in a region at the top and rear of the brain called the posterior superior parietal lobe.

Cohen Kadosh's team found that, regardless of notation, there was recovery of activity in the left parietal lobe when the numeric quantity was changed, as opposed to when it remained the same.

When we looked at the brains of Franciscan nuns in prayer, we found increased activity in the frontal lobes (same as Buddhists), but also increased activity in the inferior parietal lobe (the language area).

The nuns, like the Buddhists, also showed decreased activity in the orientation area (superior parietal lobes) of the brain.

The study revealed that people who burned the most calories through activities had more gray matter in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of their brains, which are associated with memory and learning.

Researchers who wired up meditators discovered that even when they were not meditating, they generally had more activity, compared with non-meditators, in the happiness center of the parietal lobe, the area of the brain that gives you your sense of self - worth.

Activity in one correlates with awareness of the external: a network of lateral frontoparietal brain areas — the regions on the outer side of the frontal and parietal lobes.

In fact, just listening to sentences on a cell phone decreases activity in the brain's parietal lobe by 37 percent, according to a Carnegie Mellon University study.