Sentences with phrase «same brain areas»

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

Recent research has shown that the same brain areas are active when we remember past events and when we think about the future.

As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was in the process of being integrated into the participants existing language brain networks.»

In contrast, activation of neurons that responded to snake skin, a predator cue that elicits defensive behaviors, in the same brain area showed no change in sexual behaviors.

Predicting the outcome of a task seems to involve the same brain areas that the athlete develops in practice, which would explain why athletes tend to fare better on challenges like these.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

In rats, the same brain area that stores the animal's own location also maps the movements of other rats.

When these same mice were tested after a meal, the same food cue produced a decreased response in the neurons in a subset of these same brain areas.

«They might not arise from the same brain areas, but these observations are of importance in efforts to understand hallucinations that commonly occur in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia,» says Matcheri Keshavan, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School.

To their own surprise, they found that this same brain area also plays a crucial role in situations requiring self - control when no other person is present.

As a comparison group, they injected saline (saltwater) in the same brain area of other mice.

«We think it's likely the same brain areas are involved when people fall in love, but it may not only be these areas,» says Liu.

Research suggests that saccades and microsaccades are controlled by the same brain areas, so it seems likely to us that microsaccades also will be found to be abnormal in schizophrenia.

But the production of Acheulian tools required the integration of visual working memory, auditory and sensorimotor information, and complex action - planning — the same brain areas that are activated in modern piano playing.

They use an artificial language with real structures to show how new linguistic information is integrated into the same brain areas used for your native language.

Scientists can compare the same brain area when a person is doing nothing, and again when the person is performing a task, to see how blood flow — and activity — in that brain area changes.