Sentences with phrase «relying on brain activity»

«With training, animals stopped producing overt behavior and started relying on brain activity.»

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For now, I'm relying on my daily MCT oil (in coffee, matcha, moringa and dandelion lattes) to help me boost my brain activity, but this year I'm excited to try out a supplement like TruBrain.

This increases brain activity during a time when labor progress relies on a woman's primitive brain instincts.

To identify the artists, the program relied on activity in multiple brain regions, not just visual ones.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

Vargas - Irwin used an analysis technique he developed, called SSIMS, that can accurately detect patterns of activity in collections of neurons without relying on any assumptions about what the brain is trying to do.

However, the conclusions pertaining to speech generally stem from studies that rely on indirect measurements of brain activity, raising questions about characterizing speech as lateralized.

Specifically, the study relied on data collected at NYU ECoG, a center where brain activity is recorded directly from patients implanted with specialized electrodes placed directly inside and on the surface of the brain while the patients are performing sensory and cognitive tasks.

Brain activity in unborn children has been hard to study, and neonatologists have been forced to rely on indirect measures — such as heart rate — for clues to neural activity.

However, the signals of individual brain cells can be noisy and imprecise — which means our brains can not rely solely on the activity of single neurons to make accurate decisions about our world.

The technique relies on the observation that when activity in an area of the brain increases, blood - oxygen levels in that region rise, which modulates the MRI signal.

Optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control brain activity by shining light on neurons, relies on light - sensitive proteins that can suppress or stimulate electrical signals within cells.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

On the symbolic math side, which relies heavily on phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial taskOn the symbolic math side, which relies heavily on phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial taskon phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial tasks.

Hypoglycaemia damages the brain because brain activity relies on the circulating glucose as its main energy source.45 46 Thus, NSE decreased with increasing FBG (FBG < 6.0 mmol / L) in contrast to the positive association for FBG > 6.0 mmol / L.