Sentences with word «temporoparietal»

A 2005 study found that out - of - body experiences can be artificially triggered by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction in the brain, suggesting that confusion regarding sensory information can radically alter how one experiences one's body.

Past studies have shown that an area of the brain, the right temporoparietal junction, shows increased activity when people read about another's intentions or beliefs.

Doctors evaluating a woman with no history of psychiatric problems found stimulation of an area of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction caused her to believe a person was standing behind her.

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.

Furthermore, this group difference was related to diminished activity in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ).

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

Then she stimulated the subjects» brains at an area near the right ear called the temporoparietal junction, a region theorized to play a role in our ability to figure out others» intentions, and repeated the tests.

They include the visual and audiovisual regions in and near the temporoparietal - occipital junction in the neocortex.

A more troublesome finding is a coordination between two brain regions, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction, that is more strong than in individuals who are not compulsive video game players.

Haas found a link between those with high borderline personality traits and a decreased use of neural activity in two parts of the brain: the temporoparietal junction and the superior temporal sulcus, two brain regions implicated to be critically important during empathic processing.

During the treatment he briefly zapped the temporoparietal junction, a brain region that integrates sound, touch, vision, balance perception, and the sense of location in space.

[71] In a study review of neurological and neurocognitive data (Bünning and Blanke, 2005) wrote that OBEs are due to «functional disintegration of lower - level multisensory processing and abnormal higher - level self - processing at the temporoparietal junction.»

While these decisions were being made, activity in 3 brain areas was measured: the area where the pros and cons are weighed in decision - making processes called the orbitofrontal cortex; the area where generosity and prosocial behavior are processed called the temporoparietal junction; and the happiness associated area called the ventral striatum.

Reading relies on several neurological areas and functions, especially the occipitotemporal (visual processing) and temporoparietal (phonological processing) brain regions.

Rebecca Saxe, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, has devoted her entire career to studying a single part of the human reptilian brain called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ).