Distinct
patterns of brain activity in young carriers of the APOE - epsilon4 allele.
Patterns of brain activity in 6 - month - old babies accurately predict which of them will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.
Study two involved measuring
patterns of brain activity in a different group of participants (non-musicians) who took part in a word generation task and a music perception task.
Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped
patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.
In traditional heterosexual partnerships where the mother is primary caregiver, mothers and fathers show similar but distinct
patterns of brain activity in response to their child.
And by looking at this specific
pattern of brain activity in 80 people, they also were able to predict the virality of these articles among real New York Times readers around the world.
Not exact matches
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
in brain and nerves, though
in ways unimaginably various and intricate.
in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15
For example, the intensities and
patterns of the
brain waves
in different areas
of the cortex change according to the kind
of mental
activity that is going on.
Patterns of Brain Electrical
Activity in Infants
of Depressed Mothers who Breastfeed and Bottle Feed: The Mediating Role
of Infant Temperament.
Running the game while recording people's
brain activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half
of what their partner thought they had) showed similar
brain patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.
While you lie there, daydreaming, the scientists
in the room next door monitor the
patterns of activity that flicker around
in your
brain.
PATTERNS in brain activity can be used to determine whether someone is looking at a surrealist landscape by Salvador Dali or the cubist lines
of Pablo Picasso.
A set
of fMRI recordings
of subjects» temporal lobes backed up the team's hypothesis: each time a house or face was consciously processed by an individual, the resulting
patterns in brain activity were similar.
People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical
activity, but not light - intensity physical
activity, are more likely to have healthy
patterns of glucose metabolism
in their
brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.
It is done using electrodes placed
in the
brain, which recognise specific
patterns of electric
activity that occur when a person thinks about moving.
And so we found a variant
in one
of the GABA receptors [that] is associated with alcoholism, and this fits
in with some
of the
brain wave
pattern activity that it looks like alcoholism [and] is linked to disinhibition, so [it's] a problem with the inhibition
of brain waves that people should generally have.
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.
When a small subset dies, the
pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions
in the
brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.
By observing research subjects»
brain activity as they were exposed to auditory stimuli, Kraus and her team discovered a distinct
pattern in the auditory response
of children who suffered concussions compared to children who had not.
The alterations were found
in patterns of brain activity that reoccur, or «states» that the
brain moves
in and out
of over time.
«When we learn, at first the
brain tends to not produce new
activity patterns, but to repurpose the
activity patterns it already knows how to generate,» says Aaron Batista, an associate professor
in the Department
of Bioengineering at the University
of Pittsburgh.
«When faced with a new task, we're finding that the
brain is constrained to take the neural
activity patterns that it's capable
of generating right now and use them as effectively as possible
in this new task.»
Authors also prove that the selected
pattern is connected to cognitive processes and not to motor or behavioral
activity, which represents an important progress
in the design
of brain - machine interfaces.
A new study published
in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic
patterns can be represented by neural
activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the
brain for the perception
of sound.
A team
of researchers from the Department
of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether neural
activity patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed
in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level
of scents
in the insect
brain.
By recording neuronal
activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves
of activity that cross specific vision processing areas
of the
brain in defined
patterns, and that these
patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.
When the researchers analysed the
activity in an area
of the
brain that is important for the production
of song — an area known as nucleus RA — they found a clear correlation between its
activity pattern and the occurrence
of the «stack» call.
Two patients tried different thoughts or images until the
pattern of activity in their
brain could reliably move the cursor.
They
in turn transmit messages to the
brain as a
pattern or code
of electrical
activity.
Comparing behavior (feeding or egg - laying) to the
activity patterns in the antennal lobe reveals that
activity in specific
brain areas correlates with one
of the behaviors.
His team is now looking at
patterns of gene
activity in the four
brains to work out whether it is possible to detect early signs associated with conditions like autism.
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.
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.
Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures
of electrical
activity in the
brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow
patterns in 25 participants getting rounds
of shocks on their hands.
A programmed
pattern of mild electric current overrides and calms the abnormal
activity in the
brain.
The team examined the brainwave
patterns of 36 infants (17
in the first experiment and 19
in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which measures
patterns of brain electrical
activity via electrodes
in a skull cap worn by the participants.
The scientists were further able to demonstrate how the
brain implements this placebo effect: although the subjects were given the same pain stimuli, the nerve cells
in the second run triggered a different
pattern of brain activity.
In 78 brain regions, they factored in the pattern of amyloid concentration, glucose metabolism, cerebral blood flow, functional activity and brain atroph
In 78
brain regions, they factored
in the pattern of amyloid concentration, glucose metabolism, cerebral blood flow, functional activity and brain atroph
in the
pattern of amyloid concentration, glucose metabolism, cerebral blood flow, functional
activity and
brain atrophy.
Beyond mapping the precise locations
of the
brain areas controlling these movements for the first time, Chang and colleagues also recorded and analyzed
patterns of neuron
activity in those areas.
The analysis allowed the researchers to identify and isolate the specific
patterns of neural
activity that play out
in this part
of the
brain when someone speaks, effectively enabling them to decode the
brain's signals.
A computer algorithm processed the monkey's
brain activity, homing
in on
patterns of neurons firing as it learned to do the task.
Before making decisions about which way to turn, for example, rats pause to retrace their steps by reactivating
patterns of brain activity established
in previous explorations.
«It is designed to record patient's specific
brain activity and recognize
patterns that are associated with seizures,» said Kristen Riley, M.D., associate professor
in the Department
of Neurosurgery.