Not exact matches
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.
Unlike the non-dieters, the dieters tended to show a heightened response
in the
areas of their
brains linked with
processing rewards, and a lowered response
in the parts of their
brains linked with a sense of control.
The
brain regions that
process reward, motivation, and taste didn't react as strongly, whereas the
areas that promote overall self - control had a boost
in activity.
In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lob
In one paper from last year, published
in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lob
in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the
area of the
brain that
processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.
According to a University of Iowa study on
brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert
brains show more activity
in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert
brains are more active
in regions that control sensory
processes, like watching and listening.
Differences
in the
brain's
processing of language: People who stutter
process language
in different
areas of the
brain.
While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted
in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a
brain scan
in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption
in the
brain's emotional
processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.
Accordingly, the anterior prefrontal cortex, i.e., the
brain area controlling conscious cognitive
processes and playing an important role
in the capability of self - reflection, is larger
in lucid dreamers.
«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are
processed in the different grasp - related
areas of the
brain,» says Schaffelhofer.
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).
As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain
in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the
areas of the
brain that
process language.
The upshot: the monkeys
in the larger groups had more gray matter
in brain areas linked to
processing social information (the middle superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and rostral prefrontal cortex, two of which overlap with those reported on
in the Proceedings B study).
Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point
in the
brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental
processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized
in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized
in a variety of different
areas in the
brain.
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.
After exposure, there was a significantly greater decrease
in blood flow
in specific
brain areas, particularly those involved
in odor
processing,
in the chemically intolerant patients.
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.
They charted the small changes
in voltage generated by the
areas of the
brain responding to these stimuli, a
process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).
This pruning changes the relative density of receptors
in the circuit linking the
area of the
brain involved with
processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the
area of the
brain implicated
in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).
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.
In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three
brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the
brain and responsible for
processing vision.
Studies demonstrated that the changes
in the
brain's dopamine production
area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological
processes that resulted
in permanent changes
in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the
area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.
We know, for example, that different
areas of the
brain are involved
in processing color and form of visual images.
A brief period of postnatal visual deprivation, when early
in life, drives a rewiring of the
brain areas involved
in visual
processing, even if the visual restoration is completed well before the baby reaches one year of age, researchers at the University of Trento, McMaster University, and the University of Montreal revealed
in Current Biology.
The preserved
areas of cognitive function
in an MCS patient's
brain will be stimulated when he is shown a family portrait or touched or spoken to, indicating at least some mental
process.
This
process, called tiling, evenly spaces the axons
in their target
areas within the
brain.
Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many other
brain areas contributed to the
processing of images
in volunteers who received LSD.
As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same
brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was
in the
process of being integrated into the participants existing language
brain networks.»
For the first time, language
processing has been detected
in areas of the
brain that usually
process vision, highlighting the organ's extraordinary flexibility
The differences
in fear sensitivity are likely to be innate, at least
in part: dysfunction
in the amygdala, a
brain area important for
processing fear, has previously been linked to psychopathic behaviour, and genetic factors must underlie some of these differences.
Theta wave activity starts
in the back of the
brain,
in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with
brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought
processing areas are engaged.
Neurologists Daniel Winkowski and Eric Knudsen of Stanford University wired 12 owls with electrodes
in the
areas of their
brains that
process either visual or auditory input.
«There are multiple
areas in the
brain that activate because there are a lot of
processes that have to take place.»
«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions
in key
areas of the
brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging
process,» Reagh added.
When subjects decided to donate their money, Harbaugh and Mayr found,
brain areas involved
in processing rewards lit up more than they did when the decision to donate was not their own, but was instead dictated by the experimenters.
The images revealed that dog
brains have voice
areas and that they
process voices
in the same way that human
brains do, the team reports online today
in Current Biology.
An August 15 functional MRI study
in NeuroImage shows that
in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a
brain area associated with reward
processing, pleasure and addiction.
Indeed, some think that
brain areas for
processing vocal sounds could be discovered
in more species.
Short pain stimuli are
processed in sensory
brain areas, whereas ongoing pain is
processed in frontal
brain areas which are related to emotional
processes.
Fathers of daughters had greater responses to their daughters» happy facial expressions
in areas of the
brain important for visual
processing, reward, emotion regulation, and face
processing than fathers of sons.
Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal
processing of the
areas of the human
brain involved
in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these
areas are also involved
in the understanding of actions.
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 hands have a hefty region dedicated to them
in the somatosensory cortex — the
area of your
brain that
processes and maps inputs from the multitude of neurons responsible for touch.
Non-spatially oriented
brains have more grey matter
in the left angular gyrus, an
area associated with semantic and conceptual
processing.
Spatially oriented
brains have an above - average grey matter volume
in the right precuneus, a small
area of the
brain associated with
processing visual - spatial information.
The amount of
processing space taken up by the fingers
in this
brain region is almost equivalent to the space devoted to the entire
area extending from the forearms to the mid-torso, Medina points out.
At the same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing
in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal
area — that serves as an interface between the
brain's visual and motor
processing regions.
Professor Stefan Borgwardt and his team showed that the depiction of fear under LSD led to a notably lower level of activity
in the amygdala — an
area of the
brain that is believed to be central to the
processing of emotions.
So pinpointing these differences
in visual
areas might reveal important details about
processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.
A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the
brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual
processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report
in the April 10 online edition of Science.
He distinguishes perceptual quirks such as the sound - colour correspondence from true synaesthesia, which he believes emerges from associations between higher concepts, not crossed connections
in brain areas that
process senses.