Sentences with phrase «processed brain signals»

ABM also provided proprietary software that processed brain signals collected by the EEG cap, as well as offered guidance and advice to the students.

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Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

That process produces hunger - taming hormones that send signals to your brain and act as natural appetite suppressants.

Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor processes so that the brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.

The brain has to process the signal of needing to urinate, and then the child has to learn how to hold it for a few minutes.

Fetuses use vitamin D in the womb for many important processes including regulation of the metabolism of neurotropic factors and neurotoxins, signaling neuronal differentiation, and protecting the brain from inflammation.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

In one group of robins, the team removed cluster N, a brain region involved in processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass information.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

Mapping the path of the tentacle nerves showed that they feed into an area of the brain that processes sensory signals, close to where it responds strongly to visual signals.

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

Surviving axons may compensate for the damage by increasing electrical signaling and thus restoring the normal speed of information processing in the brain.

These similar kinds or synchronized signals were found in brain areas that are connected with the early - stage processing of visual stimuli, detection of movement and persons, motor coordination and cognitive functions.

The brain activity within the brainstem of these older adults demonstrated abnormally large speech sound processing within seven to 10 milliseconds of the signal hitting the ear, which could be a sign of greater communication problems in the future.

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

SIGNAL SEARCHER Physicist Yasser Roudi is gleaning new insights into how the brain processes information.

The team focused on the primary auditory cortex, which is the first cortical region to receive auditory signals from the ears via other parts of the brain, and the nonprimary auditory cortex, which plays a more sophisticated role in processing those stimuli.

The researchers also wanted to see how the beneficial effects of cannabidiol may depend on changes in the molecular signaling processes that certain brain neurons use to communicate with each other.

How the brain does this is not fully understood, but physicist Yasser Roudi says one thing is clear: «It's about information processing in a very chaotic environment that's full of signals.»

The question that carried him from vision research to autism had to do with what happens after light hits the human retina: How are the incoming signals transformed into data that are ultimately processed as images in the brain?

Just as in sighted individuals using vision, the brain regions that play a critical role in processing the structure and geometry of objects are distinct from the brain regions that process the cues that signal the material properties of objects in blind echolocators.

Raman has spent a decade learning how the human brain and olfactory system operate to process scent and odor signals.

«These technology - inspired neuroscientific investigations, using advanced signal processing methods, push the frontier on what we know about functional brain organization and the mind.»

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

The tactile signals processed in the somatosensory centers of the brain may actually send feedback all the way to the very early stages of visual processing instead of being merely combined at some higher level.

These neurons, described in today's issue of Nature, appear to be first in line to process incoming visual signals into a spatial map, suggesting that one of the brain's first steps toward making sense of the outside world is to compensate for the body's own motion.

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

This image of a chick's retina reveals the three basic stages of visual processing by the circuit in the eye that detects light and transforms it into signals the brain can understand.

This is clear evidence, says David Corina of the University of Washington, that «the language - processing regions of the human brain can adapt to a surprisingly wide range of signaling forms.»

Making artificial whiskers that interpret delicate movements, called vibrissal sensing, has only become possible in the last 15 years, following advances in understanding the brain's neural processing of vibrissal signals.

The researchers suggest that the reverse signalling etches information into the brains of the rats as part of the learning process.

«We found that approximately 40 % of the brain cells that process visual signals appear to receive information from mRGCs,» says Brown, whose team reports its work today in PLoS Biology.

Along with the fibers, they translate our physical interactions with the world into electrical signals that our brain can process.

To find the new mutation, the scientists looked at five key genes that play a role in phototransduction, or the process by which light signals are transmitted through the eye to the brain.

This algorithm helps the brain process less than perfect visual signals, such as when objects move to the periphery of our visual field where acuity is low.

The study asserts that human brains apply an algorithm known as a Kalman filter when tracking an object's position, which helps the brain process less than perfect visual signals, such as when objects move to the periphery of our visual field where acuity is low.

Sophisticated neuroimaging machines and brain - computer interfaces detect the electrical activity of neurons, enabling us to decode and even alter the nervous system signals that accompany mental processes.

Alpha oscillations are regular fluctuations in the electrical activity in the back of the human brain — an area that includes the visual cortex, responsible for processing signals from the eyes.

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This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

Sleep deprivation diminished activity in three areas of the brain that help, among other things, to process odour and flavour signals.

As King explains it, this channel is the first step in the process of amplifying pain signals up the spinal cord to the brain.

One is the «spine pruning theory,» supported by the observation that the frontal brain regions of people with schizophrenia have fewer dendritic spines, the tentacles on the receiving ends of neurons that process signals from other cells.

They receive and process signals from the retina's light - detecting cells, the rods and the cones, and transmit them to another set of cells that, in turn, transfer the information to the brain.

«It would now be interesting to know how well our brain performs in processing signals.»

As the signals are passed along to higher and higher processing centers in the brain, they continue to be compared with larger and larger swaths of the surrounding scene.

He received his Ph.D. in biomedical signal processing from UBC and is using this training to develop a direct brain - computer interface.

Neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting electric signals, or firing action potentials, through long processes named axons (which send out signals) and dendrites (which receive signals).