Sentences with phrase «sides of the human brain»

«Asymmetrical brain landmarks may be key features to understand what is so specific in our species,» says Leroy, since left and right sides of the human brain tend to perform different tasks.

It is also illustrated by Roger Sperry's Nobel Prize — winning discovery that the right and left sides of the human brain must communicate with each other for proper cognitive function.

He mentioned a recent retreat his school held to explore how to engage both the analytic and emotional sides of the human brain on the challenges posed by human - driven climate change.

Not exact matches

Deities and afterlives are, to me, an absolutely natural side effect of the human brain's ability for abstract thought.

Those same people will smile and applaud the bold choice of Rice without an ounce of irony, because this sport has so warped their brains that one minute they will side with the rules of the NCAA and the next minute against those of human decency, the Geneva Convention, and every tenet of even the loosest definition of human rights.

Another great resource I discovered that deals directly with the human condition is a website I came across recently which addresses the «dark side» of our human condition that is a result of a biological struggle between our instinctive brain and our intellect.

After exploring the areas of the brain that fuel our empathetic impulses — and temporarily disabling other regions that oppose those impulses — two UCLA neuroscientists are coming down on the optimistic side of human nature.

However, some mice experienced dangerous levels of brain swelling, a side effect of the immune response triggered by the engineered cells, the researchers said, adding that extreme caution will be needed to introduce the approach in human clinical trials.

Instead of focusing on how the pitcher manipulates the ball, a team of researchers led by neuroscientist Arthur Shapiro of American University in Washington, D.C., attacked the question from the other side: how the human eye and brain perceive the ball's movement.

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.

Surprisingly, despite Broca's area being one of the most studied human brain regions, neuroscientists are still not exactly sure what the same region does, on the other side of the brain.

In humans, handedness goes along with the specialization of one side of the brain for precise manipulation, an asymmetry Hunt hopes to look for in crow brains.

In birds each eye projects virtually entirely to the opposite hemisphere, whereas in humans the left side of the visual world relative to the point where the eyes are fixating projects to the right side of the eye and then to the same side of the brain, and vice versa.

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.

«Bats use both sides of brain to listen — just like humans.»

«These findings upset the notion that only humans use different sides of their brains to distinguish different aspects of sound,» says the study's senior author, Stuart Washington, PhD, a neuroscientist at Georgetown.

But in humans, the hemispheres tend to specialize: Nearly all righties process language in the left side of the brain, while many lefties process language on the right.

And although birds and frogs, like humans, process their vocalizations mostly on one side of the brain, they don't tend to show a marked preference for one limb over the other.

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

WASHINGTON (April 27, 2015)-- Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

The human brain has developed into something that has a «strong regional bias», in other words, certain areas and sides of the brain control certain commands and body parts.

The delicate balance between the human microbiome and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety and panic to major depression, psychosis and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.

Damasio argues that if the pattern recognition or rational side of the brain is damaged the person can remain human, however they lose their humanity and effective decision making if the abstract or emotional side is lost.

Side effects of sleep medications have been in the spotlight in recent years, as we continue to learn more about both the drugs and the human brain.