Sentences with phrase «understand images of brain»

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Given the modernists» assumptions, the latter can be accounted for as products of our senses and brain: the neural resources of the blob generate image, sensation, and emotion, and these are consistent with reason understood as pure mechanism.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

To mark Brain Awareness Week (March 13 - 19), the following images showcase some of the NSF - funded tools and insights that are deepening the understanding of the 3 pound parallel processor that sits atop our shoulders.

In order to understand perception, we need to first get rid of the notion that the image at the back of the eye simply gets «relayed» back to the brain to be displayed on a screen.

Yoshua Bengio is one of the Canadian wizzes who revived the longtime study of neural networks by creating sophisticated versions of this brain - inspired technology now used for image recognition, language understanding and playing championship go.

The system mimics the «homunculus model of mind» — the idea that there's a small human inside our brains controlling our actions, viewing the images we see and understanding them for us.

This image of a chick's retina reveals the three basic stages of visual processing by the circuit in the eye that detects light and transforms it into signals the brain can understand.

«The brain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research DivBrain Imaging Research Division

And the images he's creating are part of an ambitious attempt to understand how the connections between those brain cells give rise to the mind.

With an understanding of «the formatting of information in the brain, you would know how to stimulate the brain to make someone think they are seeing an image,» Olshausen said.

In a partnership melding neuroscience and electrical engineering, researchers from UNC - Chapel Hill and NC State University have developed a new technology that will allow neuroscientists to capture images of the brain almost 10 times larger than previously possible — helping them better understand the behavior of neurons in the brain.

Last September the institute released a complete genomic map of the mouse brain — a free, searchable, three - dimensional analysis of 21,000 genes (including 85million images) that will help neuroscientists understand how different regions of the brain operate and interact.

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real - world context.

As director of the Roanoke Brain Study, Montague monitors brain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doeBrain Study, Montague monitors brain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doebrain activity while volunteers play games, view images, or interact with others, to understand how people make decisions at different times in their lives, and how this is related to the development of the brain, how well it works, and what happens when it doebrain, how well it works, and what happens when it doesn't.

The images produced by their work will provide a clearer understanding of how even the smallest changes to the brain play a role in the onset and evolution of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's and autism, and perhaps lead to improved treatments or even a cure.

Whereas dysfunction in a part of the brain called the insula is understood to be correlated with the kind of dissociation present in body image disorders, activation in the insula — as observed in the brains of active meditators — is thought to be positively correlated with body awareness.

Dr. Johnson's research uses advanced magnetic resonance images of the animal brain in order to study the structure and connectivity of the white matter in the equine brain as well as to identify MRI biomarkers for canine degenerative myelopathy and to improve our ability to understand and diagnose canine epilepsy.

It's easy to say but harder to understand, because the illusion of motion derived from a series of still images results from really complex events in the eye and brain.