Sentences with phrase «particular pattern of activity»

Those who gave away money showed a particular pattern of activity in their brains, but that wasn't the most interesting part of the findings.

«Once we start to correlate particular patterns of activity to behaviors or mental states,» says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies mammalian brain circuitry, «we will reinvent neuroscience as a field.»

Not exact matches

From brain scans, Schwartz found that certain regions in the brain of OCD patients (the caudate nucleus in particular) exhibited abnormal patterns of activity.

As the researchers looked at area - level data, they note their findings may not apply to individuals living in those areas as they may have different individual - level cardiovascular risk factors, length of residence in the particular area, time activity patterns including commuting to work, and the direction in which the windows on their residence face varies.

Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing — and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.

To resolve this particular contradiction, we need to recall that our brains have limited attentional resources — an attentional bottleneck results because only a single pattern of neural activity can exist at a time.

In the hippocampus, activity patterns of nerve cells associated with a particular experience, such as running a maze, reoccur but at a faster pace on replay.

A sound enters the ear and triggers a stream of action potentials, which nudge the waves of electrical activity coursing through the cortex into a particular chaotic pattern, or attractor.

The researchers then programmed the robot leg to flex its foot whenever it detected that particular pattern of electrical activity.

During training sessions for BrainGate, the computer software learns to associate patterns of neural activity with the intent to move a hand in a particular direction; it can use those intentions to pilot a computer cursor or, if all goes as planned, a motorized wheelchair.

It is almost impossible for someone to more than guestimate how much muscular glycogen they would burn through with any particular physical activity pattern, but it is reasonable to say that a very active person could add another 300 grams of carbohydrate on top of the initial 100 grams.

Going forward, the Subcommittees would: 1) work with USDA to generate tables of nutrient contributions for each of the various food types for each of the patterns so that it could formulate alternative strategies for any one individual nutrient; 2) review the literature on the contribution of dairy and calcium and physical activity in early life; 3) consider whether decreasing the recommendation of fiber in the younger age group would alter the ability to meet the DRI for other nutrients; 4) look at what flexibility or specificity is needed within the fruits and juices group; 5) make iterations to the food patterns to address special needs identified at this meeting, such as individuals who do not eat legumes, are lactose intolerant, or are vegetarians; 6) consider supplements for the elderly with regard to B - 12 and vitamin D, in particular; and 7) look at the rest of the nutrient DRI achievement after the iterations from the Fatty Acid Committee, looking at 25, 30, and 35 percent of the calories as fat.

When we talk about climate change, we're talking about the scientifically observable — and increasingly severe — changes in global climate patterns that became apparent in the mid-to-late twentieth century and can be attributed to the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, in particular) produced by human activities like burning fossil fuels.