Sentences with phrase «temporal lobe activity»

If conditions were right, says Newberg, these two things should be enough to produce the same temporal lobe activity to trigger an out - of - body experience.

Not exact matches

That activity appeared in an area of the temporal lobe known in adults for its role in processing human vocalizations.

A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis: brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).

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.

The researchers found evidence for a «voice area» in the auditory cortex of these macaques: a discrete region of the anterior temporal lobe in which activity was greater for macaque vocalizations than for other sound categories.

More important, said Charyton, brainwave activity in people with epilepsy tended to synchronize more with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, than in people without epilepsy.

Results showed that, among study participants with asymmetry in temporal lobe high frequency electrical activity, those with right compared to left side asymmetry had higher resting heart rates and other changes suggesting that the cardiovascular system may be less capable of adapting to shifting circumstances.

EEG measurements taken while people were thinking about nothing in particular revealed naturally higher levels of right hemisphere activity in the temporal lobes of people who solved problems using insight rather than logic (Neuropsychologia, vol 46, p 281).

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

More importantly, brainwave activity in people with epilepsy tended to synchronize more with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, than in people without epilepsy.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

Then, working at a sleep lab, she hooked up her subjects to electrodes that measured EEG activity all over the brain — including the temporal lobes — and recorded everything that happened while they slept.

The easiest way to determine if someone has temporal lobe epilepsy is to monitor the brain waves during sleep, when there is an increased likelihood of activity indicative of epilepsy.

He has asked neurosurgeon Niklaus Krayenbühl to implant electrodes inside Künzler's skull: a grid electrode over his left temporal lobe, and two strip electrodes beneath the left and right lobes, used to monitor activity bilaterally in the hippocampi and amygdalae.

«These regions in the right temporal lobe increase in activity the moment you establish a shared meaning for something, but not when you communicate a signal,» Stolk said.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that most patients with frontotemporal dementia who develop skills have abnormally low blood flow or low metabolic activity in their left temporal lobe.

Critically, the superior temporal gyrus of the right temporal lobe maintained a steady, baseline activity throughout the game but became more active when one player suddenly understood what the other player was trying to communicate.

The wires enabled the researchers to monitor the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe and to detect neurons that would respond more to the perception of one person than to that of another.

That meant the team could record activity in the normally inaccessible medial temporal lobe.

Both sets of photographs sparked activity in two regions in the anterior temporal lobe.

After enrolling in the study — a phase 1 trial designed to investigate the safety and antitumor activity of JCAR017 — she was found to have new lesion in the right temporal lobe of her brain.

The most significant changes were found in the temporal and prefrontal lobes, which control the physical activities, attention, and motor control.

In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

The study revealed that people who burned the most calories through activities had more gray matter in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of their brains, which are associated with memory and learning.

Seizures (fits, convulsions) are caused by abnormal activity in the brain cells, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex.