Sentences with phrase «primate brain uses»

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Using young rhesus monkeys in our model of anxious temperament is critical as brain structure and function in non-human primates closely resembles that of humans.»

«With further development, the new microendoscope could be used to image neuron activity in previously inaccessible parts of the brain such as the visual cortex of primate animal models,» said Ohayon.

Kreiter, who uses macaques to study the brain's visual perception system, is caught up in a high - profile legal saga surrounding primate research in the German city of Bremen.

Researchers used to think that taking to two legs caused the size of human brains to outstrip our primate cousins the orang - utans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

They also use noninvasive imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), to study the development and functioning of the primate brain

Jeffrey Schall uses a primate model to explore how the brain regulates its own actions.

Here, we use a much larger sample of primates, more recent phylogenies, and updated statistical techniques, to show that brain size is predicted by diet, rather than multiple measures of sociality, after controlling for body size and phylogeny.

We use non-human primates — marmosets and macaques — to study how advanced behaviour is controlled by the brain.

When processing what the eyes see, the brains of primates don't use square grids, but instead use triangles, research from Yerkes neuroscientist Beth Buffalo's lab suggests.

and i used that to frame every chapter around a decision that a researcher was making in his use of non-human primates, from brain surgeries to testing on endangered species.

Pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time — and seem to use a different region of the brain than humans and primates to do so.