Sentences with phrase «using different brain»

People who had practiced mindfulness meditation seemed to be using different brain regions than the other groups to reduce pain.

A new study using different brain imaging techniques linked the intensity of an individual's placebo effect to the amount of dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in the pleasure and reward pathway) released in a midbrain region called the nucleus accumbens.

In a virtual arena, at - risk populations keep to the edges and appeared to navigate using different brain regions

Even when men and women do the same chores equally well, they may use different brain circuits to get the same result.

For example, Burkhart uses different brain signals and muscles to rotate his hand, make a fist or pinch his fingers together to grasp an object, Mysiw said.

It might be easier and more productive to use a different brain cell type called astrocytes.

(And for those who want to delve into the neuroscience, there's an interesting piece on the convergent evolution of intelligence in crows and apes, who, it seems, use different brain structures to reason.)

Not exact matches

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

But when you use it as your crutch and you refuse to think critically using the brain God gave you, then how are you different than those Pharisees?

My experiments involve non-invasively reading people's brain electricity in response to different stimuli (using electroencephalography).

What I said to Light (in different words) is that his / her comment made no sense, and that to accuse someone of not using a brain while not making sense yourself was certainly hypocritical.

It means something different to every brain that uses it.

Neural networks simulate brain activity by trying to make connections between different data points and using those connections to create original «ideas» (but think of those ideas as crowd - sourced from a bunch of external sources).

The scientists then scanned the brains of their subjects while they thought about God and found that they used «similar parts» of their brains when thinking about their own and about God's beliefs, and a different part when thinking about other people's.

Nobody has figured out how they can be worked by such a tiny brain, using six different kinds of silk, and reckoning angles and three dimensional forms so accurately from a point of view on a flat plane.

OK guys i need to use the reply button but sometimes they block me on the reply button see, see, esau, Isaiah 27, you most of all needs to be convinced stop playn dumb.You cbutan never brain wash me, and there are many more like me, and way better stop, but as in my dreams you are made different aren't you?

Hemp seeds can help with different brain funcions, eat Pumpkin seeds raw for the full sleep - inducing effect, use Sesame seeds in dishes like Tahini, Sunflower seeds are best when they're eaten raw, and Chia seeds have plenty of extra omega - 3 in them and can help balance your glucose levels.

Usually I try to create my own recipes but as I racked my brain and tried to come up with a new muffin or cookie recipe that used pumpkin puree, I knew that I needed something a little different.

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visuDifferent parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visudifferent sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visudifferent part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

Any adult who has tried learning a new language can attest to the fact that it takes some skill and practice to get your brain used to thinking and speaking in different languages.

† The effects of DHA on infant brain and eye development have been studied using range of methods and different sources of DHA including fish oils and DHA derived from algae (which is the source used in Expecta).

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

The tools used by the commercial industry to detect our thoughts and brain states are very different, and somewhat limited, compared with those used in the research lab.

As we age, we use different parts of our brain compared to our younger selves.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

«Without using markers for different brain regions, the claim that he has achieved a 3D model of the brain is entirely unjustified.»

Researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to evaluate and compare the structural and functional properties of the main connections between different brain regions.

So John - Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany, says the brain has an «abstract code» for different artistic styles, which could one day be used to classify art.

Brain scans using fMRI showed that, when listening to English phonetic sounds, monolinguals, early bilinguals and late bilinguals» brains lit up in different areas.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

Scientists exploit this flow when they use functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine what parts of the brain respond to different stimuli.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheres.

In a human brain, 85 billion nerve cells communicate via trillions of connections using complex patterns of electrical jolts and more than 100 different chemicals.

At the Liberty Science Center's Communication exhibit, visitors can explore the origins of human language, as well as how the brain responds to a range of words and sounds and how we bond using different modes of self - expression.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

Kable and his colleagues» use of different types of scans provides a far more detailed picture of the interplay between brain anatomy and risk than does earlier research, Levy says.

«The pattern of eye movements is like the blueprint that the brain uses to piece different parts of the memory together so that we experience it as a whole.»

Currently, fcMRI is not used clinically, and the kinds of MRI and CT scans used to assess stroke damage don't measure how well different brain regions work together.

While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author...

Using a microscope with a laser attached, they precisely cut the brains into slices 20 micrometres thick and stained them to identify the different brain structures.

Phil Carlsen and Devon Hubbard at neuromarketing company MindSign in San Diego, California, are also using fMRI to see how active different parts of a viewer's brain are during a screening (see diagram).

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

Raising further doubt, a team led by Douglas Galasko, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, twice tried to find BMAA in Chamorros and North Americans who died of brain disease — and both times came up empty - handed, though using a different method of chemical identification than the one employed by Cox and the Miami team.

For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.