Sentences with phrase «vertebrate brain»

But they can be traced back in vertebrate brains from fish to frogs to rodents.

The scientists will continue to explore brain activity during sleep and awake states, as a means to understand the common and essential features of vertebrate brain function.

But when vertebrate brains are compared with octopus brains, all bets — or rather all mappings — are off.

His radial unit hypothesis set the stage for our current view of the evolutionary steps involved in constructing ever more complex and sophisticated vertebrate brains.

A sense of numerosity itself may not be limited to fancy vertebrate brains like ours.

Genetic traces similar to those in vertebrate brains have been found in lowly worms, but not all scientists are convinced that complex brains were already in the works more than 500 million years ago

He says his experiments suggest that the vertebrate brain can do this from birth.

The vertebrate brain appears to be hard - wired at birth to comprehend a 3D world — and is flummoxed by geometries that don't make sense.

Octopus brains and vertebrate brains have no common anatomy but support a variety of similar features, including forms of short - and long - term memory, versions of sleep, and the capacities to recognize individual people and explore objects through play.

Vertebrate brains all have a common architecture.

One reason the octopus fascinates scientists is that its brain became organized to be able to carry out such incredible, complex tasks without adopting the principles of the vertebrate brain.

But it does exist and has been studied for some time: «The blood - brain barrier (BBB) is formed by epithelial - like high resistance tight junctions within the endothelium of capillaries perfusing the vertebrate brain.»