Sentences with phrase «region of the human brain»

It seems that a specific region of the human brain is set aside for religion.

A human experience is the way the whole world comes together in some region of a human brain.

Olaf Sporns of Indiana University maps the major pathways that link regions of the human brain.

Dr Jeffrey Donlea, one of the lead authors of the study, explains: «There is a similar group of neurons in a region of the human brain.

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.»

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

After working to hone their technique for more than a decade, the researchers report that a small region of the human brain involved in memory makes new neurons throughout our lives — a continuous process of self - renewal that may aid learning.

This project provides the opportunity to record intracranial LFP signals from the olfactory as well as the limbic regions of the human brain while patients participate in various olfaction - based behavioral paradigms.

Non-coding-regulatory regions of human brain genes delineated by bacterial artificial chromosome knock - in mice.

Not exact matches

«Two adjacent brain regions allow humans to build new thoughts using a sort of conceptual algebra, mimicking the operations of silicon computers that represent variables and their changing values.»

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

Cobb has already alluded to the applicability of this theory to exegeting Whitehead's organic cosmology, arguing that just as the human soul located in the brain may occupy both the empty space in the interstices and the regions occupied by many cells, analogously the region of God includes the regions comprising the standpoints of all contemporary occasions in the world.

Finally, the doctrine that the regions that constitute the standpoint of actual occasions of human experience include those of subhuman occasions in the brain has several specific advantages.

The numerous, more limited, brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.

This region has the highest oxytocin levels in the brain and has high levels of oxytocin receptors across all species from mice to humans.

It won't be the last, as scientists use the approach to understand human brain development and test whether the tiny entities might one day serve as cortical repair kits, replacing regions of the brain that have been injured or failed to develop normally.

The main cog in the human biological clock is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a group of nerve cells in a region at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus.

Specific regions of the brain are specialized in recognizing bodies of animals and human beings.

The only way the team can be sure they have grown the equivalent of a fetal brain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seabrain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in SeaBrain Science in Seattle.

Brain scans tell us that these regions of the brain correspond to the ones activated in human beBrain scans tell us that these regions of the brain correspond to the ones activated in human bebrain correspond to the ones activated in human beings.

The findings, including the key role played by the prefrontal cortex in coordinating all the activated regions of the brain, are in line with what neuroscientists have pieced together over the past decades from studies in monkeys and humans.

Colored regions in these MRI images of a human fetus (shown from two perspectives) indicate brain regions where connectivity grows stronger between the 20th and 40th weeks of gestation.

After exploring the areas of the brain that fuel our empathetic impulses — and temporarily disabling other regions that oppose those impulses — two UCLA neuroscientists are coming down on the optimistic side of human nature.

Like those of the monogamous prairie vole, human oxytocin receptors are located in several dopamine - rich regions of the brain, suggesting that oxytocin is embedded in our reward circuitry.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

By doing so, members of Gould's laboratory pinpointed brain cells and regions important to anxiety regulation that may help scientists better understand and treat human anxiety disorders, she said.

Chen agrees: He said his experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals with greater «brain power» than normal» because the human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»

«The cortex is a very important region in the adult human brain that undergoes a complex, multi-stage development process,» said Daniel Nagode, a former postdoctoral researcher at UMD and lead author of the study.

Scientists can't yet grow spare parts of the human brain to fix neurological injuries or defects, but they have recently used stem cells to create brain organoids, formations of cells that mimic some of the brain's regions.

[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.

Surprisingly, despite Broca's area being one of the most studied human brain regions, neuroscientists are still not exactly sure what the same region does, on the other side of the brain.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

In humans, in contrast, a mere 3 % of their sound - sensitive brain regions lit up more for the nonvocal sounds.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Cebrain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health CeBrain Health Center.

In the late 1990s brain - imaging studies revealed that discrete regions of the temporal lobe — a section of the human brain important for object recognition — fired up more strongly when people looked at faces than at any other thing.

The authors suggest that the intricate balance between the signaling of neurons in these three brain regions may be crucial for normal social behavior in humans, and that disruption may contribute to various psychiatric conditions, including autistic spectrum disorders.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Previous studies in humans and a variety of animals have shown that the OPFC is part of a network of brain regions that respond to food, sex, and other rewards.

Research published today in Nature Human Behavior shows seeing familiar people activates a network of brain regions that appears to encode their position within the social group.

Fried realized that medical procedures like this one presented a rare scientific opportunity: Patients being examined for neurosurgery allow researchers to investigate the human brain in action, exploring the functions of different regions in precise detail and in real time.

However, the study showed the one area of the brain with the most human - specific gene expression is the striatum, a region most commonly associated with movement.

Scientists have demonstrated that the very personal gender identity of every human being is reflected and verifiable in the cross-links between brain regions.

Despite differences in brain size, the researchers found striking similarities between primate species of gene expression in 16 regions of the brain — even in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher order learning that most distinguishes humans from other apes.

In a famous set of experiments in human subjects in 2005, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga found that pictures of actor Jennifer Aniston activated a single brain cell in the hippocampus region — the so - called Jennifer Aniston neuron.

Do this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future events.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

It turns out that brain regions that do the same job in monkeys and humans aren't always found in the same part of the skull.

Now, a study in rats pinpoints the «tickle center» of the mammalian brain, showing for the first time that stimulating neurons in that region can elicit a paroxysm of ultrasonic squeaks, the rat version of human laughter.