«The fact that we found
the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.
«In both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of
the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the study.
Neuroscientists have also found that daydreaming involves
the same brain processes associated with imagination and creativity.
Not exact matches
How does a genetic mutation cause an organism to not only develop the sensors it needs to perceive the light, but also the wiring, and the function in the
brain to
process the light data at the
same time?
Embryonic stem cells are produced during development by the
same process of epigenetic programming that later will produce adult cells such as skin and
brain.
Maybe I just need a little time to
process this — to file it away in that
same part of my
brain where I keep Joshua 6:21 and Psalm 137:9.
Images and sentences are neither
processed by the
brain nor evaluated by the intelligence in the
same way.
What's more, juice is another example of liquid carbs that your
brain's appetite center doesn't
process in the
same way as solid carbs.
MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, the
same neurotransmitter that your
brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas, and other organs use to initiate certain
processes in your body.
Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the
same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor
processes so that the
brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.
In June, neuroscientist Adam Anderson's team at Cornell University demonstrated that, though our feelings may seem unique, our
brains process them using a similar pattern of
brain cell, or neuron, activation — meaning we feel feelings the
same way.
However, in
brains at rest in people with aphasia, networks involved in hearing, motor
processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the
same networks in the control group.
Over the last decade, neuroscientists have largely come to believe that physical pain and social pain are
processed by the
brain in the
same way.
When the
same image was
processed subconsciously, the researchers found that the patterns of
brain activity were much more variable.
A team led by Aaron Schurger of Princeton University reasoned that repeatedly presenting the
brain with the
same sensory input should evoke similar neural activity each time — if the input is
processed consciously.
While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the
brain to
process meaning and intonation — instead of the
same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs»
brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheres.
Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward
processes, and it actually engages the
same [
brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.
The animals were as good as humans at recognising mugshots of the
same celebs from different angles, showing sophisticated
brain processing of imagery
Music is
processed in the auditory cortex in this
same region of the
brain, which was why Charyton wanted to study the effect of music on the
brains of people with epilepsy.
While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the
brain to
process meaning and intonation — instead of the
same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author...
Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the
same brain mechanisms used in
processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is
processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.
As powerful as they can be, the biochemical
processes underlying placebo effects don't seem to unfold the
same way in every
brain.
At the
same time, these are cognitive
processes like many others — reasoning, remembering, decision - making — and as such must originate in the
brain.
«When we hear a sound, the normal aging
brain keeps the sound in check during
processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the
same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.
In undamaged
brains, dj vu likely occurs because of
processing errors in these
same regions.
There is a long - standing hypothesis that all emotions are
processed by the
same brain structure, says Sprengelmeyer.
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.»
It's a decades - old question in cognitive psychology: Does the
brain process an imagined object the
same way it does a real one?
«Our results show how differently our
brain processes the
same pain stimuli.
In addition, as with the human
brain, the fly
brain is compartmentalized into regions that
process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the
same types of neurotransmitters as humans.
The images revealed that dog
brains have voice areas and that they
process voices in the
same way that human
brains do, the team reports online today in Current Biology.
MX's
brain responded in much the
same way as the architects»
brains did, activating a network of regions that
process vision and recognize individuals.
«Those findings also suggest that FGF21 is regulated the
same way in humans as in mice and that the
process involves the expression and activation of certain proteins in the
brain.»
At the
same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal area — that serves as an interface between the
brain's visual and motor
processing regions.
And it is possible that other animals also use the
same brain regions to
process language.
At the
same time, the aged
brain processes the stream of visual data much more slowly.
In addition, the neurons in the CA3 region of the
same as well as the neighbouring
brain hemisphere communicate via certain fibres — i.e. associative / commissural (AC) fibres via the AC - CA3 synapses, and are likely to support retrieval of established memories, a
process that is called «pattern retrieval.»
Chemical clues confirm that at least some fundamental
brain processes are the
same in humans and insects.
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.
The
brains of humans and dogs light up in the
same place in response to vocal sounds, suggesting these
processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor
Now it seems the
same may apply to its effect on the
brain's information
processing.
The researchers point out that this neurobiological similarity between sign and speech, then, goes beyond basic similarities and into more intricate
processes — the
same parts of the
brain are used at the
same time for the specific computation of combining words or signs into more complex expressions.
New research shows for the first time that we
process cash and social values in the
same part of our
brain (the striatum)-- and likely weigh them against one another when making decisions.
«Drugs of abuse use the
same systems in the
brain that are used to
process natural rewards.
In addition, they note that our
brains likely weigh the benefits of each against one another (because they are
processed in the
same place) as we make up our minds.
New studies show that money and social values are
processed in the
same brain region, providing insight into how we make choices
The fact that the
same retinal image can give more than one perception, as when perceptions «flip», is useful because it lets us separate «bottom - up» (from the eye) from «top - down» (from the
brain)
processes.
But experts differ on whether both tasks utilize the
same fundamental
brain processes.
He points also to
brain - imaging research that shows native speakers of Chinese and native speakers of English
process the
same Arabic numerals in different parts of their
brains, suggesting that language and culture influence even which neurons are recruited to deal with numbers.
The researchers then performed the
same test on a different set of volunteers, this time imaging their
brains during the
process, to look for differences in
brain activity between the age groups.