Sentences with phrase «right hemisphere as»
That is, using as many of the functions of the brain's right hemisphere as possible in the process and preparatory stages.
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Yes, it's known that most higher brain functions (such as perception, memory, and intelligence) are centered in the cerebral cortex, that 0.1 - inch - thick infolding of neuron - rich gray matter overlaying both the right and the left hemispheres that would cover some 1.5 square feet if it were laid out like a tablecloth.
One hemisphere may be slightly dominant, as with left - or right - handedness.»
Indeed, this left - brained specialisation for language is even more common than right - handedness — which might suggest that as the left hemisphere evolved for language, the preference for the right hand may have intensified simply as a side effect.
But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.
The mature Christian, therefore, takes ethics (left hemisphere), as seriously as ecstasy (right hemisphere).
In terms of what we know of damage in the brain's right hemisphere, this can be called «polishing» (Arnold J. Mandell, «Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence: God in the Brain,» in Psychobiology of Consciousness [Plenum, 1980], 417) Things are seen as better than they are.
So too empirical evidence about the brain is more complex than the simple distinction about left and right processing (Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch, Left Brain, Right Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemispright processing (Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch, Left Brain, Right Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemispRight Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemisphere.
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.
Some of the axons grew as much as 1.5 millimeters, connecting to the corpus callosum, a bundle of neurons connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
To process the most disturbing material, men fired up the amygdala's right hemisphere, which is more in tune with the outside world and communicates with regions that control sight, such as the visual cortex, and motor coordination, like the striatum.
The birds» right eye is connected to the left side of their brain; apparently, says Hunt, their left hemisphere is better at controlling complex sequential tasks, just as it is in humans.
«In other words, a dog looking to a dog wagging with a bias to the right side — and thus showing left - hemisphere activation as if it was experiencing some sort of positive / approach response — would also produce relaxed responses.
In contrast, a dog looking to a dog wagging with a bias to the left — and thus showing right - hemisphere activation as if it was experiencing some sort of negative / withdrawal response — would also produce anxious and targeting responses as well as increased cardiac frequency.
The shaft of the stick, horizontal and sloping gently downward from left to right, indicated only modest changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature for almost 1,000 years — as far back as our data went.
Clyde Francks, head of the MPI research group «Brain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults».
As participants slept, right hemisphere regions showed consistent slow - wave activity regardless of the night.
The right hemisphere does not speak, as a rule, and has very limited cognitive capacities.
In the few participants who processed the language with the right hemisphere, the results were the same, not inverted as might be expected, which reinforces the hypothesis of the researchers.
To filter out such background noise, IceCube's designers have used the earth as a shield, pointing the sensors downward and looking right through the planet toward the sky over the Northern Hemisphere.
But in this resting state, approach - motivated righties showed more activity in their left hemispheres, while approach - motivated lefties showed more activity on the right — just as the sword - and - shield hypothesis predicted.
As expected, when the syllables were spoken, the right ear and left hemisphere were dominant 75 per cent of the time.
Most prominent effects between IQ and the level of global connectivity efficiency (as expressed by a shorter node specific normalized path length) were found in the medial prefrontal cortex (yellow box), bilateral inferior parietal cortex (red box depicts effect in right hemisphere), and precuneus / posterior cingulate regions (orange box) of the functional brain network.
A research team led by Andrew C. Belden, PhD, found that those with a smaller insula in the brain's right hemisphere were more likely to have recurrent episodes of depression as they got older.
(As an example, a quotation from Iain McGilchrist, MD:»... sympathetic nervous control is more influenced by the right hemisphere, [and] control of the parasympathetic nervous system is more under left - hemisphere control.»)
In fact, childhood brain issues such as ADHD or autism spectrum disorders reflect lopsided growth of the hemispheres, with the left brain often dominating a weaker right brain.
Long before Christy Turlington graced the cover of Vogue in Calvin Klein and Upward Facing Bow, the postures associated with modern yoga arose as a way to prepare the body for long spells of seated meditation: Open hips to accommodate a cross-legged seat; a strong back to hold a straight spine; equanimity between the left and right hemispheres of the brain for clear focus.
So maybe it's been an average of 36 degrees celsius days here and maybe I counted the struggle of pulling these babies over my legs as a workout but it hasn't stopped me from drooling over the boots everyone is the northern hemisphere is donning right now.
By contrast, the sociocultural conditions of female bioclase in this period, as the collection of plants and fruits - besides traditional mothering -, would lead to a bigger development of right hemisphere, which is the part responsible for the sensations, feelings, empathy, intuition and overall apprehension.
The common misconception that art and science are so vastly different, that they never overlap, is discredited by two contemporary artists, Rusty Scruby and Shawn Smith, whose work proves that the union of these two disciplines, like the brain's neuropathways between our right (artistic) and left (analytical) hemispheres, is the sweet spot known as creativity.
Can you actually get the magnitude of the Northern Hemisphere regional response right just as a response to reduced luminosity?
However, he noted that climate models are continually being reworked and a lot will depend on how fast Arctic sea ice melts, which he says acts as «an air conditioner for the hemisphere,» reflecting incoming solar radiation right back into space.
As seen by the blue point farthest to the right on this graph, 2009 was the warmest year on record in the Southern Hemisphere.
Rather than travelling in the same direction as the trade winds, the net flow of water in the surface layers affected by the wind are 90 degrees to the direction of travel - to the right in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
The end point is likely about right, today is about as warm or warmer than the MWP in the Northern Hemisphere, but what about the SH and the oceans?
As a result, the poleward - moving air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
(The Coriolis effect is due to the Earth's rotation, and causes air and fluid patterns such as ocean currents to deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and deflect to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.)
Based on the right side of the graph, the breakup anomalies trend negative as «Spring N. Hemisphere temperature anomalies» trend positive.
As I wrote, we must first multiply by 0.25 to account for the fact that half the Earth System is not illuminated by the Sun at any given time, and the hemisphere that is illuminated is not all at right angles to the Solar rays.
«People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right - hemisphere processes,» says Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to their collective bosom.
High cortisol levels reduce functionality in important self - regulatory parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus (the centre of learning and organisation), the corpus callosum (which allows communication between left and right brain hemispheres, connecting language with sensed experiences) and the prefrontal cortex (fundamental in planning and regulating feelings and behaviour).
Siegel (2012) also observes that just as the left hemisphere requires exposure to language to grow, the right hemisphere requires emotional stimulation to develop properly.
That's because meditation (also known as mindfulness - based stress reduction) actually creates new neural pathways between the brain's right and left hemispheres, he says, which offers coherence between our brain's analytical, time - conscious, logical left side and the intuitive, accepting, creative right side.