Sentences with phrase «sensory inputs»

Multiple sensory inputs that often contradict each other thus vie for control of our organism and ultimately leads us to respond sometimes based on reason alone, sometimes based on pure emotion, and sometimes based on pure instinct.
Nick Mansfield has created an environment where sensory inputs produce the same kinds of emotions, anxiety, heightened sensitivity, and general stress that is felt by those living with PTSD, offering the viewer a unique look into a world often unexplored and misunderstood by the general public, raising awareness of what the world behind the curtain of PTSD looks and feels like
Besides ensuring optimal traction during acceleration, the system also permanently monitors a wide range of sensory inputs — for example steering angle, lateral acceleration, yaw angle and speed — to distribute torque so as to achieve optimum propulsion and safety for example on snow or to counteract sudden changes in road surface friction.
Proper processing of sensory inputs is important for all of these top - level cognitive functions, so may be an efficient way to both measure and intervene in a very targeted way.
The variety of sensory inputs allows you to create a visual image that has all kinds of dimensions bubbling up inside it.
Neuroscientists have discovered that removing the sensory inputs to the brain is a highly rewarding and relaxing behavior.
Recent research demonstrates that a migraine is a processing disorder in which sensory inputs from light, sound, and a variety of other triggers overload the brain.
For example, when walking on a sandy beach, visual cues that assist in balance may be «weighted» more heavily by the brain than sensory inputs received by the feet on an uneven surface.
Mindfulness has taught me to slow down the time between sensory inputs and reflect before I react.
Biofeedback may enhance neural plasticity by engaging auxiliary sensory inputs, thus making it a plausible tool for neurorehabilitation and for a variety of population.
«The current available evidence on pain sensation is as follows: sensory inputs from the body are only known to activate the cortical areas of brain after 24 weeks.
Before that time the brain is likely to be active, but this activity can not be driven by sensory inputs, because the connections are not there.
The hippocampus can receive information from many different sensory inputs to help build the cognitive map.
However, delivering this information to the part of the brain responsible for processing sensory inputs does not work if this part of the brain is injured or the connections between it and the motor cortex are lost.
During vocalization, it coordinates sensory inputs and motor outputs.
Overall, study participants navigated relatively closely to the targeted location when using only their sense of smell, compared to when other sensory inputs were blocked.
These circuits «enable us to properly assimilate multiple streams of information to control and prioritize sensory inputs,» says Akili co-founder Eddie Martucci.
A popular theory of the cause of phantom limb pain is faulty «wiring» of the sensorimotor cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for processing sensory inputs and executing movements.
In addition, the company is testing its video game on people with Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- conditions believed to share a common weakness in the brain system that integrates sensory inputs.
Sensory inputs that are out of sync also contribute to the risk of falls in elderly patients.
In their recent PNAS paper members of the Imperial College team reported that the presence of LSD was linked to a boost in blood flow and functional connectivity between the brain's primary visual cortex and seemingly unrelated brain networks that mediate other sensory inputs as well as higher - level processes including emotion.
Kenyon cells receive sensory inputs from organs that perceive smell, taste, sight and sound.
«This gives us quite an exciting springboard to fully map out this decision - making circuit from all the sensory inputs leading into the brain and how the brain parses and compares these signals, and comes to a decision,» states Schinaman.
In humans who are being raped, tonic immobility may be immediately triggered when their sensory inputs (touch, smell and so on) reach a critical threshold and they feel there is no escape.
The results reveal that the brain does not require multiple signals to build a picture body ownership, as this is the first time the illusion has been created using sensory inputs from the muscle alone.
Crossmodal plasticity in the case of blindness is a vital brain mechanism for compensating for visual deprivation, but the mechanism can have also negative effects on visual restoration, because it might interfere, to a certain extend, with the optimal resettlement of the regained sensory inputs.
«We are who we are because we have experiences, and brain organoids do not have sensory inputs
First, perception is based largely on extracting statistical correlations from sensory inputs.
A growing body of research calls into question the idea that most brain areas are tied to specific sensory inputs
In the same way that it regulates our internal temperature, our brain is constantly, and autonomously, engaged in sense - making and simplification, distilling sensory inputs to make it possible for us to make sense of our environment and our lives.
I'll try not to ramble too much here, but in the case of my child I am quite confident that part of the problem is difficulty in multi-tasking and processing multiple sensory inputs simultaneously (I recommend the mislabeled child to understand some of the technical stuff)... also, learning has to be fun and NOT TOO HARD.
In short, it's the inability to process multiple sensory inputs from the environment in a self - regulatory and functional way.
4.1.2 Comfort The transition from life in the womb to existence outside the uterus is made easy by the various sensory inputs in the Breast Crawl position.
This new movement will give wonderful new sensory inputs to the movement (vestibular), touch (tactile) and pressure & stretch (proprioceptive) systems.
Infant positioners, pillows, and chairs restrict your baby's freedom of movement and limit the sensory inputs he gets.
Reduced distractions and sensory inputs, such as bright lights and loud noises.
Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.
In the time you are taking to read this, you're brain is being deluged with sensory input.
Whether it's squeezing the Charmin, eyeballing the grapes or sniffing the chicken, grocery shopping has always seemed like an endeavour that takes sensory input.
The goal is to be able to go out into their surroundings, with their parents and experience the sensory input.
There is nothing connecting photons to neurons other than the sensory input of sight and the infrared glow of chemical reactions in all living matter.
From moment to moment we construct our world, at least each for himself, from a wild array of sensory input and our knowledge of what seems to work.
It is state in which which our brains are acting as if called upon to interpret real sensory input when actually experiencing much less coherent stimuli than reality provides.
No brain activity but alive... the individual has no sensory input... there is no personality... it is a living bag of meat.
Stace makes the point that most of our intellectual processes are tied to sensations and images but that in mystical consciousness there are no external sensations at all, for one has gone beyond the level of the consciousness which relies upon such sensory input and of the intellectual processes which demarcate and integrate this sensory input.
What I would look for first, to test the hypothesis of intersensory prehension, is straightforward, reliable evidence of a vague awareness of presences (a feeling of feelings in the environment) in the absence of normal sensory input.
Therefore, one might predict that people deprived of ordinary sensory input will detect the presence of other people in a room more reliably than they detect the presence of aggregates such as a piece of furniture.
Self - Injury in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability: Exploring the Role of Reactivity to Pain and Sensory Input.
In fact, his behavior is so much better that I can easily forget everything I know about his sensitivity to sensory input.
Michelle Emanuel will present «Interoception: Beyond the Homunculus... the real Sixth Sense and its primary function as Sensory input to the Autonomic Nervous System» where attendees will learn about the functioning of interoceptive pathways, how compromised systems can be linked to complex breastfeeding issues, and the ways this can be addressed clinically.
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