Sentences with phrase «parts of the brain as»

Healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory - related part of the brain as do teenagers and young adults, researchers report in the April 5 Cell Stem Cell.

While most blind adults develop a mature theory of mind, it wasn't clear whether they used the same parts of their brain as sighted people do to reason about the mental states of others.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

The team also found an association between the delayed development of the nonprimary auditory cortex in infancy and language delays in the children at age 2, suggesting that disruptions to this part of the brain as a result of premature birth may contribute to the speech and language problems often seen later in life in preemies, Monson said.

He often refers to the olfactory parts of the brain as the «Old Factory,» as they are remarkably similar across species.

They light up the same parts of the brain as monster trucks and battlebots do.

It appears to show that understanding language is not relegated to one part of the brain as has been commonly thought.

In 1953 he underwent a major operation to remove parts of the brain as treatment for his epilepsy, including large portions of the hippocampus and adjacent structures.

Brain scans demonstrate that sugar acts on the same part of the brain as highly addictive drugs such as opiates and amphetamines.

Those people are in the same part of their brain as all the right - handers; there are enough of them already).

Forbes even goes so far as to try and say it's gambling because it works on the same part of the brain as gambling.

It pretty much used the same part of my brain as cartooning, the pay was good, the work doable enough and you got to interact with adults most of the time.

«Research in the past few decades [has] shown us that social and emotional pain DO hurt us; in fact, this kind of pain is registered in the same part of your brain as physical pain.

Not exact matches

Through a concerted effort on the part of our brains we gather as much information as we can as quickly as we can.

This is because after long term everyday exposure to an English speaking environment, the brain of native Greek speakers starts interpreting the «ghalazio» and «ble» as part of the same color category.

However, many in the industry are hopeful doctors will one day prescribe game - like cognitive exercises as part of a healthy brain training regimen.

Results showed those who were especially anxious fared better after viewing the images (i.e., showed a milder response in the amygdala, the part of the brain that helps process emotions), just as the images helped those who weren't even paying attention to them.

So as far as your limbic system — the part of your brain that reinforces social behavior — is concerned, mission accomplished.

For example, Lieberman discovered that we feel social pain, such as the loss of a relationship, in the same part of the brain that we feel physical pain.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

David Poole, a UBC computer science professor who specializes in artificial intelligence, explains that Watson and Siri treat the Internet as part of their brains, and consequently know more than any human ever could.

Those are converted into electrical impulses that pass to the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus, which governs our endocrine system and hormones, and much of our activity.»

It's been proven to stimulate the neocortex (the part of our brains responsible for creative thinking), and increase emotional intelligence as well.

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

Maurice Op de Beek, CTO of Kiiroo, says this makes for a very realistic experience as the user's brain starts assimilating the body parts in the movie when feeling and vision are in sync.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

Our natural inclinations seem to be connected to the individual sensitivity of our amygdalae, the part of the brain that functions as the «emotional switchboard,» and to how actively we each respond to dopamine — a «reward chemical» released in the brain when it anticipates attaining something pleasurable, like sex or chocolate cheesecake.

As we burn through mental capacity, the activity in the part of the brain involved in self - control decreases, triggering us to make poor calls.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

Read the first part of the quote... you're trying to argue that your brains (As well as everything else) is a random accident while using your braiAs well as everything else) is a random accident while using your braias everything else) is a random accident while using your brain.

You might as well ask us to excise the thinking parts of our brains.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

If, as White - head puts it, the dominant thread «wanders from part to part of the brain, dissociated from the physical material atoms» (PR 167), then those enduring objects can not possibly be material.

As Howard Bloom suggests in Global Brain we do actually seem to be part of an intelligence a bit higher than ourselves.

Certainly, since these faculties of the soul are dependent upon the health of the physical brain, and the brain is dying as a result of being part of the physical body, our imagination, memory, reason, and emotions are not used to their full capabilities.

It appears that somewhere in the brain the information is being processed, but it can not be accessed as part of a visual field.

We shouldn't be blindly defending our faiths and religions and we should be reasonable as God created us with this amazing part of our body: the brain to reason and articulate!

The entities directly below the level of a person, the immediate constituents of a person, are the organs such as the brain and heart, and other large scale body parts, such as the arms and hands.

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

As I prayed, and talked it out with Brian, I felt some part of my heart, I think it might have been God because it seemed so outside of my own brain, say: just go.

There are neurological correlates for every form of mental activity and, as Biovin himself acknowledges, just because imaging studies show that religious experiences are correlated with activity in a particular part of the brain, it does not follow that that activity is the cause of religious experience.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

It's kind of chilling when you begin to suspect that such things are explainable as perhaps inevitable consequences of being the kind of creatures that we are — that we might point to some part of the brain and say it resides there as nothing more than a convoluted net of neural circuits.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

This is to say each of us has in our brains about as many macromolecules as there have been seconds since our part of the cosmos began to assume its present form.

If I had a brain, I might start to wonder and quietly ask these people about their own beliefs, and if they view blessings as part of their faith.

As human beings we are not, therefore, trapped behind the glass wall of our own subjectivity, because our brains are part of this same fabric of meaningful and interconnected reality that is the universe we live in.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.