The scientists focused on foraging behavior — the worms» roaming movements in search for food — and found incredibly
similar patterns of activity between individuals.
Nevertheless, studies that compare the vivid imagery of dreams with daytime vision reveal
similar patterns of activity in the visual cortex, the largest brain area devoted to vision.
The team also checked the fMRI readings to determine whether any other brain regions had
a similar pattern of activity, which would indicate that the brain networks were communicating with one another.
New research shows that our brain displays
a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind - expanding drug trip.
Emotional sounds, such as crying and laughter also had
a similar pattern of activity, with an area near the primary auditory cortex lighting up in dogs and humans.
A similar pattern of activities was undertaken in the early 1990s by a group known as the «Greening Earth Society,» funded by a consortium of U.S. coal corporations (Oreskes 2010).
Not exact matches
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted
of six main parts: a) characteristics
of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship
patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense
of community, and psychological closeness to various groups
of people; if married,
similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness
of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and
activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping
activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
These manuals follow a common
pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably
similar in character.53 The greater number
of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic
activity, military service, political issues, the relationship
of master and servant, the right use
of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.
In traditional heterosexual partnerships where the mother is primary caregiver, mothers and fathers show
similar but distinct
patterns of brain
activity in response to their child.
The state's response to Petersburgh and Hoosick Falls follows a
similar pattern of early awareness and then a long period
of inaction, followed by a flury
of activity when the situation became public.
Running the game while recording people's brain
activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made
similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half
of what their partner thought they had) showed
similar brain
patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.
They controlled the experimental conditions so that the subjects experienced
similar levels
of pain, but found that individuals showed different
patterns of mu - opioid
activity.
The
patterns of brain
activity that accompany those
similar early and late movements are actually completely different though.
A set
of fMRI recordings
of subjects» temporal lobes backed up the team's hypothesis: each time a house or face was consciously processed by an individual, the resulting
patterns in brain
activity were
similar.
So subsequently people have been looking at this type
of brain
activity and this brain
activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again, showing that identical twins had more
similar patterns than non-identical twins.
Hardy examined the wear
patterns and residue on the tools and found that although modern humans had a larger range
of implements, both groups engaged in
similar activities, such as using tree resin to bind stone points to wooden handles and crafting tools from bone and wood.
The authors suggest that human
activity may even be driving a
similar Lilliput - like
pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because
of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.
This was determined in a «generalization» test, in which the degree to which flies learned a generalized aversion to unfamiliar test odors could be predicted based upon the relatively
similar activity patterns of Kenyon cells that the odors induced.
The
activity response
pattern each odor triggers can be seen to be very different, while the
pattern between tests
of the same odor is very
similar.
Two
of the mouse's genes had been altered so that the egg had a
pattern of gene
activity similar to that
of a sperm.
However, all regions
of the human brain have molecular signatures very
similar to those
of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human
patterns of gene
activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.
Nor is it clear whether the
similar patterns of brain
activity between the healthy participants and the brain - damaged patient mean that the man is having the same «conscious» experience
of the film, Naci notes.
This
pattern of activity is
similar to the
pattern observed in people who are dreaming.
«At the heart
of these methods is the ability to test if
patterns of brain
activity are more alike for two
similar styles
of music compared to different styles.
A scent's location on the map also predicts the brain
activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety
of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles showed that neighboring odors cause
similar patterns of neuron
activity.
In addition, during sleep the brain - wave
patterns of dogs are
similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages
of electrical
activity that are observed in humans — all
of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.
In a related editorial, Virginia A. Stallings, M.D.,
of the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia and University
of Pennsylvania, writes: «Future studies and educational
activities are needed to encourage families who choose to provide lunch from home to prepare meals that are
similar to the NSLP diet
patterns and the health promotion goals.
The possibility
of picking up on
similar early warnings has made the monitoring
of rockfall
patterns an important
activity, but useful data is lost each time a fall goes unobserved.
Whereas liver and blood gene
activity patterns showed the expected differences among the three groupswith human transcription looking
similar to that
of the chimp, and different from that
of the more evolutionarily distant macaquegene
activity in the brain revealed stark differences between humans and chimps.
The study participants had to give a
similar speech at the end
of the treatment period, so researchers could assess whether their
patterns of brain
activity had changed.
Barbosa and colleagues ruled out research
activity as the cause for the loss since both studied populations and those used as controls showed
similar patterns of decline.
A
similar pattern of neutralization
activity for the GL VHH was seen, with GL B9 and A14 neutralizing R2 only and GL B21 neutralizing both autologous viruses (Fig. 7C, D) although in all cases the neutralization by the GL VHH was less potent than by the mature VHH.
In addition, workers exposed to 46 °C heat also exhibited Acks expression
patterns similar to those observed in the brains
of workers involved in the formation
of a hot defensive bee ball, suggesting that the neural
activity observed in the brains
of workers involved in the hot defensive bee ball mainly reflects thermal stimuli processing.
The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a
pattern of gene
activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.
(i) Direct smears from bat snouts, Periodic Acid Schiff - stained tissue sections from infected tissues, and scanning electron micrographs
of bat tissues all showed fungal structures
similar to those
of G. destructans (ii) G. destructans DNA was directly amplified from infected bat tissues (iii) Isolations
of G. destructans in cultures from infected bat tissues showed 100 % DNA match with the fungus present in positive tissue samples (iv) RAPD
patterns for all G. destructans cultures isolated from two sites were indistinguishable (v) The fungal isolates showed psychrophilic growth (vi) We identified in vitro proteolytic
activities suggestive
of known fungal pathogenic traits in G. destructans.
Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts
of the brain to provide a measure
of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain
patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have
similar imitation scores and eyetracking
patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level
of their brain
activity.
In theory, the company could be looking for things like
similar last names or residential information on accounts, or watching for
patterns in review
activity, like a back - and - forth exchange
of reviews between two authors.
A
similar pattern of diverging partisan views has also occurred on the issue
of attributing global warming to human
activities.
The leading modes
of simulated North American precipitation and soil water storage are characterized essentially by qualitatively
similar meridional seesaw
patterns associated with the
activity of the westerly jet.
Furthermore, adults who perceived their daily social interactions to be more comforting and supportive showed dampened ACC activation during exclusion (Eisenberger et al. 2007) and young adults who spent more time with friends during late adolescence showed a
similar pattern of reduced ACC and insula
activity during exclusion (Masten et al. 2012).