Sentences with phrase «pattern of activity»

In fact, modern biology shows that an individual's learning environment influences the growth of new patterns of activity in the brain — it even shapes how genes are expressed in brain activity.

Or are the same regions involved but with different patterns of activity?

Nevertheless, studies that compare the vivid imagery of dreams with daytime vision reveal similar patterns of activity in the visual cortex, the largest brain area devoted to vision.

In those scans, one spot in the brain showed the same patterns of activity as the master map in the computer model.

Reviewed and analyzed compliance monitoring reports and other related source documents for suspicious and unusual patterns of activity.

New research shows that our brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind - expanding drug trip.

A certain pattern of activity might tell a robotic arm to move right or left; another might raise or lower it.

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.

During these processes, abnormal patterns of activity have been found in individuals with ASD.

RS: Animals respond according to their overall pattern of activity to certain aspects of the environment and not to others.

A consistent pattern of activity signals the approach of bedtime, giving the babies a clue that it's time to sleep.

Besides taking notes on patterns of activities, there are other ways to feel close to your unborn baby.

He suggests that consciousness results from «patterns of activity involving thousands or millions of neurons» (AT 44).

The substantial things that so profoundly shape our sense of reality are more accurately described as stable patterns of activity than as substances.

Even at this early age, kids establish patterns of activity that carry through the rest of childhood.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

They began to show distinct, identifiable patterns of activity as soon as the object was presented but the animal knew how it was supposed to grasp that object.

The data was then combined with previous surveys going back more than 30 years to reveal the long - term pattern of activity.

Your brain is a dynamic system that evolves patterns of activity, rather than simply processing them like a computer.

The software maps connections between different entities to identify potentially fraudulent patterns of activity.

At the same time, essential stability is provided by self - regulating mechanisms that drive nerve cells to produce consistent patterns of activity.

At the time, Martin Cohn, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, discovered snake embryos had a different pattern of activity of certain genes than other reptiles and that applying a growth factor could make those embryos start to grow limbs.

MEG allows scientists to detect such changing patterns of activity in the brain 100 times per second.

These stages, relating to the distance from a threat, are associated with distinct patterns of activity at the neurobiological level (6 — 8).

«Our results show we can detect a specific pattern of activity between neurons in the brain, recording instantaneous exchanges between them as persistent signals that can later be visualized under a microscope,» Gallio said.

«We found people with AD have different daily patterns of activity than people without AD,» Watts said.

Then those same patterns of activity re-occur in the hippocampus when the animal isn't moving, but sped up by a factor of about 20.

Carla Shatz showed how patterns of activity in the developing brain instruct and refine the arrangement of synapses between neurons.

It charts a complex pattern of activity across more than 100 areas spanning both brain hemispheres.

During the first 24 hours after death, genetic changes kick in across various human tissues, creating patterns of activity that can be used to roughly predict when someone died,...

You should work with the PI to sustain patterns of activities such as group meetings.

The scientists focused on foraging behavior — the worms» roaming movements in search for food — and found incredibly similar patterns of activity between individuals.

Advances in optical imaging and optogenetics combined with electrophysiological recordings enable Albeanu and colleagues to monitor and / or alter patterns of activity at unprecedented synaptic and millisecond resolution, in real time, as animals are engaged in various behaviors.

A new study pinpoints these distinct brain patterns of activity.

Scientists at the University of California discovered that when rats experience something new, their brains show new patterns of activity.

«There was clearly a breakdown here that led to a troubling pattern of activity from this detective some years ago,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.

What pattern of activity was suspicious?

From this perspective we can see why Aristotle accepted spontaneous generation without anxiety: putrefying matter, already seething with change, could accidentally fall into self - perpetuating patterns of activity and thus spin off organisms — maggots in corpses or oysters in mud.

«This ends up translating to different patterns of activity even for similar movements.

Volunteers were more likely to mention the first odour — and when they did, their brains showed a characteristic pattern of activity in the hippocampus.

When they dropped food in the tank at night, Cassiopea responded to its treat by returning to a daytime pattern of activity.

Despite having replaced at least a subset of the olfactory sensory neurons that first interacted with that wine's unique odor, you are still able to recognize its aroma when you pour a glass, because the overall pattern of activity within the olfactory system remains relatively constant.

Vargas - Irwin used an analysis technique he developed, called SSIMS, that can accurately detect patterns of activity in collections of neurons without relying on any assumptions about what the brain is trying to do.

According to Watts, too little is known about patterns of activity for people experiencing the early stages of AD.

Certain patterns of activity suggest that the brain has subconsciously detected a threat, and the system will alert the soldier immediately instead of waiting for his conscious mind to finish digesting the entire scene.

«A long coexistence with the predator generated extraordinarily reduced patterns of activity, even in the absence of the predator.