Sentences with phrase «patterns of activity in»

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

We're trying to explore how these patterns of activity in the hippocampus engage the rest of the brain.

«Different spatial positions are associated with different patterns of activity in the hippocampus,» Maguire says.

The research team, led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue, then asked each man to think about moving his hand to follow a cursor on a screen — and to the team's delight, the patterns of activity in the motor cortex changed according to the direction of motion each man was told to imagine.

They found no structural differences, but recorded unusual patterns of activity in areas linked to memory and visuospatial processing.

The Senseable City Lab conducts large - scale data projects, often based on mobile technology or social media, to evaluate patterns of activity in urban environments or among technologically connected networks of people.

The scans revealed different patterns of activity in the secondary olfactory cortex — a collection of neurons that mediate pleasant sensory responses to smells and tastes.

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.

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.

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.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15

Two patients tried different thoughts or images until the pattern of activity in their brain could reliably move the cursor.

«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.

The researchers found that the pattern of activity in the second or so before the cue symbol appeared — before the volunteers could know they were going to make a decision — could predict the likely outcome of the decision.

Just from the pattern of activity in the hippocampus — a part of the brain instrumental to our ability to navigate — the researchers could determine where each subject was located within the simulation.

The brain's inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the cortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical operation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.

By employing two paradigms that differed widely in musical complexity, we found that improvisation (compared to production of over-learned musical sequences) was consistently characterized by a dissociated pattern of activity in the prefrontal cortex: extensive deactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal and lateral orbital regions with focal activation of the medial prefrontal (frontal polar) cortex.

«We have seen an unusual pattern of activity in the housing market over the past 12 months,» Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says.

«We have seen an unusual pattern of activity in the housing market over the past 12 months, with the market experiencing a surge of activity and price increases that peaked in the fall of 2009 rather than spring.

This pattern of activity in the amygdala is indicative of a hyperactive emotional response system and also indicates poorer PFC regulation [46].

Not exact matches

Kilduff said the science of pricing and trading has evolved into «a new animal,» with «a lot more electronic trading» affecting activity patterns, and «a lot more traders in general, who've never been in this space before.»

The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world.

«The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world,» said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.

There's also the pattern of conflicts of interest and efforts to cash in on the presidency, and whatever other investigations are finding about his business activities before the presidency.

Meghan Markle will have no difficulty in fitting in to this pattern of activity.

These are quite interesting developments in light of what we have discussed in late December regarding the technical and sentiment backdrop as well as time cycles and seasonal trends in precious metals (see: Gold and Gold Stocks — Patterns, Cycles and Insider Activity, Part 1 and Part 2).

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

This pattern is expected to be reversed somewhat over the second half of the year, as activity in the house - building sector begins to pick up and growth moderates in the medium - density sector.

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

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Equivalently, then, that successor presiding occasion prehends the mentality of its predecessor (s) in the dominant subsociety, not directly through spatial contiguity, but through the patterns of activity already present both in the brain as its immediate environment and in the entire organism as its overall field of activity.

3Pethaps some further explanation is needed of the manner in which a society as a unified field of activity serves as the medium for the transmission of physical feelings and conceptual patterns from one generation of occasions to another.

On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.

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.

When we say that a social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.

The individuality of enjoyment in the momentarily dominant occasion is a shaping of the various activities of a mental environment into an esthetic pattern.

Experiences during this process include feelings of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory of the lost one, pouring out of grief, idealization of the deceased, guilt feelings, anger, loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning of thousands of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning of other responses, resumption of normal patterns of living, and the establishment of substitute relationships.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

On the other hand, when the body is kept in the same state of nourishment and in patterns of activity, the psyche retains the ironclad protection of its habituated condition.

We must provide for the activity of the student's mind such that he or she freely perceives a new abstract pattern, in art or literature or mathematics.

There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.

A «cultural» analogue for communication insists that communicative activity can not be abstracted from patterns of meaning - making in culture.

Furthermore, it is not God's activity in the Exodus which is to be recalled but his pattern in creation, when he rested after six days of work.

The dramatic changes which have taken place in the activities and patterns of people's social lives over the past two generations are of major theological significance in themselves.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanitIn fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanitin our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanitin our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.