Sentences with phrase «used brain scanners»

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Now, scientists using brain scanners and a crew of eager dogs have discovered that dog brains, too, have dedicated voice areas.

The major difference between the original and this remake is that the students actually use a brain scanner as they allow their classmates to kill them off one at a time — obviously with the expectation of being revived in a few minutes before significant brain damage starts.

Not exact matches

An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memoBrain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memobrain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.

Neurocinematics is a term coined by Uri Hasson at Princeton University, who was among the first to investigate how the brain responds to movies using an fMRI brain scanner.

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which detects changes in blood - flow patterns, the scientists monitored what was happening inside subjects» brains.

Bristow then used a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, or fMRI, to monitor any brain activity triggered by blinking, independent of the effect of eyelid closure on light entering the eye.

The team also used fMRI brain scanners to look at the brain activity of the men as they viewed photos of their kids.

To find out, Iballa Burunat at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and her colleagues used an fMRI scanner to look at the brains of 18 musicians and 18 people who have never played professionally.

Now, rather than focusing on the potential end results of lying, Temple University scientists Scott Faro and Feroze Mohamed are developing a way to detect deception by looking directly at people's brain activity using MRI brain scanners.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.

A new way of using MRI scanners to look for evidence of multiple sclerosis in the brain has been successfully tested by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

In the early 1990s, Richard Haier, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine, tracked cerebral glucose metabolic rates in the brains of Tetris players using PET scanners.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end of the study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

The Bhutan Epilepsy Project plans to use a portable brain scanner developed by Jacob Eg Larsen and Arkadiusz Stopczynski at the Technical University of Denmark, near Copenhagen.

Researchers from the University's Psychological Sciences department identified 38 healthy individuals aged between 18 and 63 and tested their propensity to hallucinate, musical aptitude and measured their detailed brain structure using an MRI scanner.

If you watch the activity in someone's brain using a modern fMRI scanner, you see a different profile depending on which kind of memory the subject is conjuring up.

The team then used an fMRI scanner to detect the brain activity elicited by images of the satellites.

Using magnetic resonance imaging scanners, the researchers captured a snapshot of the participants» brain activity as they made their choices.

The scanner data suggests that the vmPFC integrates information from other brain areas and uses this information to calculate an overall value.

In the brain scanner, using video glasses, the test subjects viewed photos, for example of human faces.

Piven and his collaborators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at brain activity in 59 baby sibs as they slept in the scanner.

Outside the brain scanner, the subjects were asked to quickly categorize the gender, race, and emotion of the faces using the mouse - tracking technique.

In order to look for the signature of consciousness in the brain, Tagliazucchi and his colleagues used a drug called propofol — an anesthetic drug used in surgery — to induce loss of consciousness in participants while they were inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine's scanner.

Prior to the brain scan, both groups were familiarized with the type of task that would be used in the scanner.

After equalizing the task structure learning and using the fMRI scanner, the two groups» brain activation differed while they were learning a new dot pattern.

Using one of the strongest MRI machines available, with a field strength three to six times that of typical clinical scanners, the researchers produced brain scans that resolved millimeter - scale networks for the first time.

A new study by researchers from the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University and Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet shows that people with PTSD have an imbalance between two neurochemical signalling systems of the brain, serotonin and substance P. Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark led the study using a so - called PET scanner to measure the relationship between these systems.

As this happened, they used an fMRI scanner to log changes in blood oxygen levels across the brain — a sign of neural activity.

In a series of experiments, neuroscientists used fMRI brain scanners to monitor electrical impulses moving back and forth between two specified regions of the brain.

By using M.R.I. scanners, scientists have now looked directly at dogs» brains to see how they work.

October 15, 2009 — Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California admitted Monday that a mistake in default settings on a CT scanner used to perform brain scans on patients resulted in an increase in the amount of radiation emitted by the machine.

Apparently in February 2008 Cedars - Sinai radiologists overrode the default settings on a CT scanner used for the brain scans, hoping to obtain clearer data.

The finger scanner is something totally new for the Samsung's devices range, and although one should claim that Samsung took inspiration from Apple for this, but still — a feature that is coming to good use, is good for the users (who cares if it is copied or is an original one from an innovative brain?).