Sentences with phrase «specific brain maps»

The researchers were particularly interested in emotion - specific brain maps, that is, maps on the localisation of emotions in various areas across the entire brain.

Not exact matches

«Rather than merely brain mapping, we can start to address more biologically specific questions like, «How do individual differences in axon diameter correlate with differences in impulsivity?

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory aBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have created a map that shows how specific schizophrenia symptoms are linked to distinct brain circuits.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively map — «count» — the total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain.

«Neuroscience is trying to map which parts of the brain are responsible for specific functionality,» Wen said.

When multiple maps are overlaid, patterns begin to emerge that show how different regions of the brain activate specific and often discrete complements of genes.

The group employed various viral tracing methods — infecting receptor - expressing neurons with a virus strain and watching them spread as they label infected cells with a fluorescent protein — to visualize the neural circuit downstream of the ESP1 receptor, as well as providing an image of nerve fibers belonging to specific neurons in the brain and synapses relaying impulses from neuron to neuron, to map the anatomical foundation that conveys ESP1 signals in the brain.

This map, created by comparing the location of thousands of specific points in many healthy brains, shows which is which.

UNIGE neuroscientists thus asked how these spatial maps are used by the brain itself when it performs specific tasks.

Now a team of researchers has used computer - vision and machine - learning techniques in fruit flies to create behavior anatomy maps that will help us understand how specific brain circuits generate Drosophila aggression, wing extension, or grooming.

A team led by psychologist Jordan Grafman and neurologist Paolo Nichelli found that the overall strategy the brain uses for chess can be broken down into simpler functions and mapped to specific areas.

The map should make relating the brain activity to specific sounds much easier.

«With our brain map, researchers could look for circuitry - specific drug discovery,» Dong said.

They have refused the classic view of the tongue's flavour map, showing a uniform distribution of these receptors, and identifying regions specific to each flavour in the brain's gustatory cortex.

While neuroscientists have long sought to map these complex connections to see how they influence specific brain functions, traditional techniques have yet to provide the desired resolution.

The scanner mapped participants» neural activity in specific brain areas before, during and after the presentation of the visual target events.

«By studying how damage to particular brain regions produces specific forms of cognitive impairment, we can map the architecture of the mind, identifying brain structures that are critically important for specific intellectual abilities.»

In this way, we can produce a brain - wide cell - resolution map of the neuronal activation patterns related to specific behaviours.

Here we show that in each case the resulting module specific SI map is similar in the brain areas that are included as part of the overall module.

The human brain comprises of functionally specific clusters of maps communicating via an extensive network of long - range, myelinated, axonal projects.

«Merzenich's speciality [was] in improving people's ability to [rewire and redesign] the brain by training specific processing areas, called brain maps, so that they do more mental work.»

Manage the fMRI program that maps specific brain functions that aids in surgical planning and success.