Sentences with phrase «take neural activity»

«When faced with a new task, we're finding that the brain is constrained to take the neural activity patterns that it's capable of generating right now and use them as effectively as possible in this new task.»

The researchers found that the brain is constrained to take neural activity patterns it already knows and use them for the new task.

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Together, they developed an optical imaging and temperature control system that enabled them to take a snapshot of neural activity in the circadian clock network of fruit flies when the flies are exposed to heat or cold stimulus.

«When we look at the neural processes that take place in the brain while processing the symbols, we see that around 400 milliseconds after the presentation of the to - be-counted symbol, there is an extreme reduction in brain activity, although it should normally be very high,» explains Schmidt.

Researchers took a three - dimensional approach to this study by looking at what the users» task performance was through evaluating how they process the tasks of detecting cyberattacks with neural activity, which was captured using electroencephalogram, or EEG, cognitive metrics and with eye gaze patterns, which were captured using an eye - tracker.

The patterns of neural activity underpinning our selves keep changing throughout our lives as we learn to play checkers, read Thus Spake Zarathustra, fall in love, lose a job, win the lottery, get divorced, take Prozac.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

To do this, the researchers implanted a four - by - four - millimeter chip composed of 96 electrodes into a subdivision of the PPC called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP), to measure the neural activity of a tetraplegic human who volunteered to take part in a brain - machine interface clinical trial.

The film takes place mostly in a Berkeley lab where a group of young medical researchers are developing an experimental new serum designed to prolong the neural activity of coma patients.

Relocating to San Antonio in 2000, Dallas took time off from business activities to spend with his young son and to self - study in the growing convergence of the cognitive, behavioral, affective, social, relational, and neural sciences and the practical application of those sciences in the field of individual, group, and organizational development.