Sentences with phrase «scans of human brains»

Using ground - penetrating radar and software originally written for scans of the human brain, archaeology graduate student Tiffany Osburn and ground - penetrating - radar expert Larry Conyers have visualized the subterranean structures buried beneath the sediment.

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Kurzweil has appeared in Inc. magazine numerous times (he let us scan his brain and told us how to predict the future) and is the leading advocate of a school of thought called the singularity, which says, essentially, that humans will eventually turn into robots and live forever.

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

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The types of human research that we can do — such as brain scans — aren't detailed enough for identifying words, using grammar, and the act of speech.

And similarly neuroscience, revolutionised by the capacity of PET scanning techniques to observe for the first time the brain «in action», promised to clarify the physical basis of the human mind, thinking, memorising, perceiving and interpreting the world «out there».

Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach with her toes touching her forehead.

Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind - reading technology.

Stolk argues that scientists and engineers should focus more on the contextual aspects of mutual understanding, basing his argument on experimental evidence from brain scans that humans achieve nonverbal mutual understanding using unique computational and neural mechanisms.

The scientists also scanned the brains of 22 human subjects who listened to the same set of sounds.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh constructed a detailed atlas of the human brain using MRI scans from more than 130 healthy people aged 60 or over.

Neuroscientists can predict human choices from brain - scanning activity before the subject is even consciously aware of the decisions made.

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

The brain scans of the robbery victim had revealed enough connectivity and enough bandwidth to register and process a human voice.

Magnetic resonance scans of human and monkey brains suggested as much, but in 2010, Freiwald published a study describing the neuroanatomy of macaque monkeys» face - recognition mechanism in much greater detail.

Two views of a composite reconstruction of the Homo sapiens fossils are based on tomographic scans of multiple original fossils; they reveal a face that would be nearly identical to that of modern humans, but a less - evolved brain shape.

«If we use relative brain size as a metric of «intelligence» then one would have to conclude that dolphins are second in intelligence to modern humans,» said Marino, who performed several MRI scans on dolphin brains.

Brain scans with names like PET and SPECT allow us to see the chemical changes in the brains of live human beings.

The brain scans showed that the dogs processed the words, with or without the use of intonation, with their left hemisphere similar to humans.