In his chapter, Schore explains the underlying
right brain activity that manifests as defensive projective identification, how that behavior is experienced by the therapist, and how the therapist's responses can benefit, or hinder, the client.
Increased airflow through the right nostrii is correlated to increased left brain activity and enhanced verbal performance, where as increased airflow through the left nostril is associated with increased
right brain activity and enhanced spatial performance.»
Since the right hemisphere of the brain regulates impulsivity, attention, and socially appropriate behavior, a child with decreased
right brain activity may be hyperactive, oppositional, disruptive, and even aggressive.
Birthing practices that isolate women from their innate capacity to birth can interfere with these behaviours because women then focus on breastfeeding as a left brained activity when actually research has shown us it is more of
a right brained activity (Smilie 2008).
According to the book, «The Dyslexic Advantage,» http://dyslexicadvantage.com/group/dyslexic-advantage, learning to read is actually a simple, left brain skill compared to many of the more complex
right brain activities many dyslexics are able to perform.
People who are very logical and structured (left brain thinkers) tend to perform worse at
right brain activities that involve skills like spatial awareness, creativity, and visualisation.
Not exact matches
Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the
right -
brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.
The scientists found that when individuals completed a word puzzle,
right before a moment of insight, a cluster of cells located in the superior temporal gyrus — in the
right hemisphere of the
brain — show significant
activity.
Right, the hallucinations occur where there is no
brain activity, which is the confusing part to the scientists.
They have also found that each hemisphere (
right and left) of the
brain specializes for the accomplishment of distinctive types of mental
activity.
You know when you open up the cinnamon jar, and smell that wonderful aroma, that
right there is actually not just pure bliss but stimulation of
brain activity!
«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link
brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing
right by their babies».
The study, which the researchers say is the first to link
brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing
right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.
They also lacked a low frequency burst of
brain activity (the delta
brain wave) that occurs
right at the start of the trial in healthy subjects.
A Role for the
Right A counterintuitive but essential feature of Petkov's results, similar to the corresponding findings in the human brain, is that voice - selective activity was stronger in the right hemisp
Right A counterintuitive but essential feature of Petkov's results, similar to the corresponding findings in the human
brain, is that voice - selective
activity was stronger in the
right hemisp
right hemisphere.
While measuring
brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the
right front of the insular cortex, a part of the
brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control and self - awareness.
Past studies have shown that an area of the
brain, the
right temporoparietal junction, shows increased
activity when people read about another's intentions or beliefs.
Given that the left side of the
brain controls the
right side of the body, this suggests that babbling is mainly a left -
brain activity.
When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and
right hemispheres of their
brains lit up (dark red indicates high
brain activity; dark blue, low
activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.
«When faced with a new task, we're finding that the
brain is constrained to take the neural
activity patterns that it's capable of generating
right now and use them as effectively as possible in this new task.»
For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep -
brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter
activity in the
right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.
Trying to find the
right medicine for the sickest of these patients, Rapoport scanned their
brains to zero in on regions involved in OCD and found increased
activity in the basal ganglia, a center for movement and habits located at the base of the forebrain.
The so - called Inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was activated more during sequences which were ungrammatical than grammatical, although
brain activity was more weighted towards the
right hemisphere.
Lack of sleep affects appetite, too: A 2012 Swedish
brain - scan study identified heightened
activity in the
right anterior cingulate cortex — a
brain region associated with hunger control — in the sleep - deprived.
Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress - related disorders show increased
activity in the
right hemisphere of the
brain — and in emotional, nonverbal processing — and decreased
activity in the left, according to neuroimaging studies.
Burunat recorded how their
brains responded to the music, and used software to compare the
activity of the left and
right hemispheres of each person's
brain.
The team also found that musicians»
brains seemed to fire more symmetrically when they listened to music — the
activity in the left and
right hemispheres was a much closer match than that of the non-musicians.
«In most people the centre for these
activities lies in the
right half of the
brain, in many MS patients however it lies in the left side of the
brain, as it does in many epilepsy patients,» says the PhD student and primary author Kathrin Kollndorfer.
Psychologist Debbie Crews found that golfers who performed poorly when putting under pressure also exhibited heightened
activity in the left hemisphere of the
brain, typically responsible for analytical thinking, and diminished
activity in the
right hemisphere, associated with coordination and visual ability.
By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring
brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the
brains of timid children are more active on the
right side — specifically, in a region called the
right frontal cortex.
They had more
activity in their
right hemisphere, which is associated with processing loose associations, and more diffuse
activity in the part of the
brain that processes vision (Neuropsychologia, vol 46, p 282).
Various techniques for studying dominance do seem to show that people with schizophrenia have more
right -
brain activity.
Activity in another part of the
brain, the
right inferior frontal gyrus, changed in response to discouraging information.
And they all have decreased
activity in the
right parietal lobe of the
brain.
Later, the scientists pored over the scans, looking closely at the
activity in people's
brains right before they were asked about their state of mind.
Some scientists think that these bursts of
brain activity help young
brains form the
right connections between regions.
fMRI tests revealed increased
activity in
right insula, the part of the
brain that regulates satiety and cravings, after participants consumed walnuts.
Right after they were told to forget, the fMRI showed that they «flushed out» the scene - related
activity from their
brains.
When participants were shown pictures of highly desirable foods, fMRI imaging revealed increased
activity in a part of the
brain called the
right insula after participants had consumed the five - day walnut - rich diet compared to when they had not.
Since language related cortical areas reside in the left hemisphere in most
right - handed adults, the observed
brain activity had no direct relation to language processing.
The part of the
brain that lit up with
activity during those moments of pareidolia was the
right fusiform face area, known to be responsible for facial recognition.
Previous research in rodents and humans has shown that electrical
activity surges in the
brain right after the heart stops, then goes flat after a few seconds.
In the above image on the
right, we see that the three Pac - Man shapes «underneath» the triangle cause little
brain activity (coloured blue), but the separate Pac - Man on the
right causes more
activity.
A person with PARK8 type parkinsonism (
right) shows less overall
activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine, compared to that in a healthy
brain (left).
Previous studies showed imbalanced
activity of the two
brain hemispheres in people who stutter compared to fluent speakers: A region in the left frontal
brain is hypoactive, whereas the corresponding region in the
right hemisphere is hyperactive.
After enrolling in the study — a phase 1 trial designed to investigate the safety and antitumor
activity of JCAR017 — she was found to have new lesion in the
right temporal lobe of her
brain.
The results of the present study suggest that less - than - typically developing
brain activity in the
right anterior insula is a potential neural basis of deficit in inferring others» social emotions without direct emotional cues in individuals with ASD.
Dr Lindner advocates the «100 minutes» rule, where practising an
activity correctly (not counting the time it takes to get it
right) for this length of time cements it in your
brain.
What to do: Age - related memory loss can be slowed down with the
right foods and nutrients as well as
brain - stimulating
activity.
Below (red):
Brain activity of experienced Internet group while performing the reading task (left) and the Internet task (
right).