Sentences with phrase «record brain responses»

In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the research team, led by Dr. Vinoo Alluri from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, recorded the brain responses of individuals while they were listening to music from different genres, including pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Miles Davis, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Shadows, Astor Piazzolla, and The Beatles.

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This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

Having a record in writing, instead of relying on scrambled mental notes in your sleep - deprived brain, will give you a more accurate picture of your child's patterns and your own responses.

His team came up with the idea of a cognitively controlled hearing aid after they demonstrated it was possible to decode the attended target of a listener using neural responses in the listener's brain using invasive neural recordings in humans (Nature 2012).

A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis: brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).

At each time point, the response of the fetus was examined by recording fetal brain responses elicited by sounds with a magnetoencephalographic device.

To determine how the brains of echolocators process these cues, researchers have recorded the echoes produced by echolocator's clicks on different materials (a blanket, fake foliage and a whiteboard) and looked at the response these sounds produced in the brains of sighted people, of blind non-echolocators and of blind echolocators.

«This type of performance can allow for real - time applications using quite simple processors,» says Dr Wiederman, who is leading the project, and who developed the original motion sensing mechanism after recording the responses of neurons in the dragonfly brain.

Brian Pollard at the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues used a new method called functional electrical impedance tomography by evoked response (fEITER) to record the brain activity of 20 people as they responded to a general anaesthetic.

They recorded TMS responses in waking subjects, and then used the brain activity from people in deep sleep or under different types of anesthesia as a reference for unconsciousness.

The new study combined two methods: So - called «patch recording» of tiny voltages in single frog brain cells and how the voltages change in response to sounds of different lengths, and the administration of drugs that block neurotransmitters — a way to learn how brain cells respond to sound with and without the normal neurotransmitters.

«The brain regions that are activated while the newborns are listening react differently in the two cases,» comments Gomez, «and reflect the preferences observed across languages, as well as the behavioural responses recorded in similar experiments carried out in adults.»

University of Washington graduate student Jose Ceballos wears an electroencephalography (EEG) cap that records brain activity and sends a response to a second participant over the Internet.

This is done by placing electrodes on the head and recording brain wave responses.

Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test records the electrical activity of the brain in response to sound stimulation.