Sentences with phrase «processing brain mechanisms»

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Brain research is helping scientists better understand the neural mechanisms underlying language processing in infants and young children, as well as the social interactions necessary for honing those skills.

However, apart from the structural differences, there are profound differences between the brain and a computer, especially in learning and information processing mechanisms.

«Is it possible that very different brain mechanisms for complex cognitive processes have developed independently in birds and in mammals in the 300 million years of their existence?»

According to the scientists, the study offers evidence neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain start processing information in anticipation of where we are going to look before we ever do it, suggesting that selective processing might be the mechanism for visual stability.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

Having previously found that molecules called cryptochromes embedded in birds» retinas both respond to light and detect magnetic fields, scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany recently showed that avian brains incorporate clever mechanisms for processing the geomagnetic information.

The findings also reveal an unexpected connection between an RNA processing mechanism and protective immunity in a specific region of the brain.

In their findings, reported in Nature Physics, the researchers describe a method they developed for growing tiny «brains on chips» from human cells that enabled them to track the physical and biological mechanisms underlying the wrinkling process.

«On the other hand, if these seemingly different abilities are carried out by overlapping cognitive mechanisms or brain areas, then experience with musical pitch processing should affect language pitch processing, and vice versa.»

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

Lead author of the study Kirsten Weber proposes, «The enhanced activity might reflect a brain mechanism to build and strengthen a neural network to process novel word order regularities.»

«Not enough research has been done on the mechanisms driving sensory problems in autism, but it's important because sensory processing probably affects to some degree how the brain develops,» said co-author Yong - hui Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and neurobiology at Duke.

«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»

These interactions between the senses, in addition to educating us about brain mechanisms for information processing, may also provide a useful tool in rehabilitation for neurological disorders.

In disease, the brain seems to activate mechanisms to repair myelin, but can not complete the process.

The way epigenetics helps understand that process is that it provides the mechanism by which maternal experience of a pup can essentially produce lifelong changes in the brain because many epigenetic changes are that stable.

Wong hopes future research will address how sleep difficulties and deprivation may affect brain mechanisms, which in turn influence control of affect, cognitive processes, and behavior.

To Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources.

While machine learning is thus effective for decoding mental activity, it is not necessarily effective for understanding the specific information processing mechanisms in the brain.

Delving into the uncharted domains of the brain, they hope to uncover the mechanisms underlying brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson?s, as well as epilepsy, stroke, and other neurological disorders, and to find ways of preventing or intervening the disease process.

Eye movements and the mechanisms by which the brain controls and processes what we choose to look at have been a major focus of neuroscience researchers for decades.

«We believe that signals carried by the VOF play a role in many perceptual processes, from recognizing a friend's face to rapidly reading a page of text,» said Yeatman, who is now studying brain mechanisms involved in learning to read.

Using a series of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, Park plans to go beyond naming the brain region where magnitude processing takes place to identify the anatomy and function of neural pathways involved in magnitude processing and reveal neural mechanisms that support mathematical thinking.

Previous studies had suggested that the interactions between these two brain regions contribute to the formation and storage of aversive memories, and that these interactions are compromised in PTSD; but the exact mechanisms behind these processes were unknown.

The scientists presume that the ability to compensate an impaired process by another part of the brain depends on the hierarchy level on which the language is perturbed: Processing the rhythm of a word is such a basic mechanism that can not be simply overtaken by another part.

Caltech biologists work to reveal nature's mechanisms — how tens of thousands of components act in concert in cells, how organisms grow from single cells, how the brain maintains its consciousness, emotions, and superb computational capabilities, and what happens when any of those processes goes awry.

The research was carried out at Tel Aviv University and the University of California - San Francisco and will continue, with a focus on obtaining a better understanding of the brain and the biological mechanisms that underlie memory processes that cause vulnerability to alcoholism — and perhaps drug use — in some individuals.

In the laboratory «Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Control» we study brain circuitry mechanisms for voluntary movement control and sensory processing that involves the arm and hand.

We combine behavioral economics and social psychology tools with imaging and psychophysiological techniques to investigate the brain mechanisms that support these complex processes.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

Scientists have learned that the brain undergoes structural changes as it absorbs sensory data, learns and adapts, but the actual mechanism of this process is just now coming into view.

The findings uncovered a mechanism that enables the brain to switch from relaying input from the outside world to inwardly focused processes like thought and memory consolidation.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

(2008) Pheromones enhance somatosensory processing in newt brains through a vasotocin - dependent mechanism.

Janelia scientists are working on some of science's most challenging problems: discovering the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information - processing system and developing optical, biological, and computational technologies for creating and interpreting biological images.

Oxytocin and dopamine signalling within connected brain areas of the reward - processing network drive social bonding behaviours but the neural mechanisms have been unclear.

But willpower just isn't enough when your brain's reward mechanisms kick in, thanks to the toxic influences of sugar and processed foods.

This study and this study specifically found that hard drug addiction and food addiction share very similar mechanisms, meaning that junk food addiction is actually a physical process within the brain rather than just a mental thing.

Research has shown that these curcuminoids communicate with 160 mechanisms and pathways in the body to support a wide range of processes, including brain health, cardiovascular health, tissue health, and more.

It's important to further support yourself by avoiding high - glycemic processed foods so you don't trigger your brain's craving mechanisms.

It's important to further support yourself by avoiding high - glycemic processed foods so you don't trigger your brain's craving mechanisms and trigger autoimmune thyroid flares.

Human brain is not just a cognitive information processing mechanism, but a complicated system where affective and cognitive functions are inseparably integrated.

One of the more interesting phenomena that Kandel explains is that when viewing abstract paintings the brain uses what he calls a «top - down» mechanism to recruit personal experience, imagination, creativity, and responses to other works of art into the process.

Several candidate mechanisms of CRCI have been proposed, including inflammation and cytokine dysregulation, chemotherapy - induced epigenetic changes, blood — brain barrier disruption, hormone deficiencies, oxidative DNA damage and shortened telomere length, and genetic susceptibility.21 — 26 However, the heterogeneity and design limitations within the emerging body of evidence have led to recommendations for harmonising study methodologies and moving towards multisite, longitudinal research.3 27 Such approaches would support the demonstration of robust relationships between measurable biological processes and cognitive outcomes.

The Archeology of Mind by Dr. Jaak Panskepp Presents an affective neuroscience approach — which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share — to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression.

The brain and its whole body are the embodied mechanism of that flow, and the mind is the self - organizing process that regulates that flow.»

Neural activity within brain regions innervated by serotonergic neural pathways, such as the human amygdala, may serve as another likely information processing mechanism involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.

Advances in neuroscience have revealed that the process of brain development is driven by a dynamic interaction between the genome (nature) and the environment (nurture).25 Epigenetic mechanisms like DNA methylation and histone acetylation are able to transduce experiences with the environment into long - lasting, even intergenerational changes in gene expression.26 — 35 So although the inherited genetic program is thought to provide a general blueprint for brain architecture, the environment is able to influence which genes are used, when they are used during the course of development, and where they are used within the developing brain.