Sentences with phrase «receives sensory information»

«The central amygdala receives sensory information related to such behaviors.»

Our «inner brain» receives sensory information from the outer brain, integrates it with memories, internal states — such as hunger or arousal — and goals, then sends a plan of action back out to our muscles.

The nucleus also receives sensory information from the vocal folds, the tongue and the lung.

Each amygdala receives sensory information from the frontal cortex, and children with an overly active right frontal cortex may be stimulating the right amygdala more than the left, invoking the fear response.

When the hippocampus forms a new spatial memory, it receives sensory information about your current location from a brain region called the entorhinal cortex.

In each case, the primary areas receive sensory information from the thalamus and the higher order areas process that information.

Not exact matches

The answer I proposed suggests that we should be able to receive some kinds of information from our environment in the absence of normal sensory functions.

Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder by Lucy Jane Miller (Ph.D.) covers much of the same topics as The Out - of Sync Child and even has a forward by Carol Stock Kranowitz, but includes more information on moving forward once you have received a diagnosis.

The brain's ability to accurately receive, interpret and respond to tactile sensory information from the skin is an important foundation for self - feeding skills, for participation in grooming activities (hair brushing, fingernail cutting, toothbrushing, etc.), and for fine motor coordination.

Children's brains will not receive the information in the same way if they are stressed out during the sensory activity.

They are vital for the overall co ordination of the nervous system and are needed to allow the brain to interpret sensory information it receives.

Pioneering occupational therapist and neuroscientist A. Jean Ayres, PhD, likened SPD to a neurological «traffic jam» that prevents certain parts of the brain from receiving the information needed to interpret sensory information correctly.

We receive information through different sensory experiences and stimuli including touch, whether light or deep (also known as proprioception), smell, sight, hearing, tasting, and movement, also known as vestibular input.

To understand speech, as for other cognitive or sensory processes, the brain breaks down the information it receives to integrate it and give it a coherent meaning.

The implication: The visual cortex is evolutionarily adapted to the sensory information it receives, not to the world beyond.

At UC Berkeley, he is probing how the brain imposes an interpretative framework on the sensory information that it receives — a phenomenon known as top - down modulation.

The primary areas receive information directly from sensory organs like the eyes.

It could receive and process sensory information again.

«Our latest research findings support a newly emerging model of how the brain focuses attention on a particular task, using neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus as a switchboard to control the amount of information the brain receives, limiting and filtering out sensory information that we don't want to pay attention to,» says senior study investigator and neuroscientist Michael Halassa, MD, PhD.

Neuroscience textbooks say that each half of the brain receives sensory input from just one side of the body — the left hemisphere handling information from the right half of the body, and vice versa.

«It's not sensory input, but how they process the information they receive from the different males.»

The hippocampus can receive information from many different sensory inputs to help build the cognitive map.

The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous...

Thalamus: receives input from the senses and «decides» to send information to either the sensory cortex (conscious fear) or the amygdala (defense mechanism)

A child learning to walk receives important sensory information from the soles of their feet, and shoes can make walking more difficult...