Sentences with phrase «revealed higher activation»

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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.

Using an imaging procedure with high resolutions, the scientists revealed that a simultaneous counterchange of luminance of neighboring stimuli creates a sequential activation in the primary visual cortex.

The fMRI scans revealed significantly higher levels of activation in the amygdala, which controls emotion and motivation, in the brains of the male subjects compared to the females, despite the fact that both males and females expressed similar subjective assessments of their levels of arousal after viewing the images.

By looking at activation of different brain regions while test subjects were exposed to different listening conditions, Dr. Johnsrude's research has revealed that the early processing of sound, which occurs in a brain region called the primary auditory cortex, depends on higher - level linguistic knowledge encoded in other regions of the brain.