Sentences with phrase «wave brain patterns»

Although how it works is not understood, hypnosis may bring about physiological changes in the body such as decreased heart rate, blood pressure, and alpha wave brain patterns, similar to meditation and other types of deep relaxation.

Not exact matches

The present theory of conscious superjects proposes that there is another independent variable that determines the pattern of brain waves.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

Furthermore, it would be externally detectable if its occasions are identical with the internal synthetic unity of the whole pattern of those externally identifiable patterns of brain wave activity that are known to be associated with consciousness.

Now, my problem is whether the pattern of brain waves as a whole could consist of more inclusive occasions including lesser occasions.

(3) Finally, even if there is a one - to - one correlation between the presence of consciousness and the presence of certain brain wave patterns, this establishes at most a one - to - one correlation, not an identity.

(2) Our second difficulty is that Whitehead's denial of the regional inclusion of small events by large events seems to exclude the possibility that the pattern of brain waves as a whole identifies mind - events that include the subordinate electromagnetic occurrences in the waves themselves.

For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

Therefore, the brain wave pattern reflecting a novel idea should deviate from concurrent neural impulse patterns.

According to the theory, the form of relatedness that characterizes unified, purposive functioning in human beings and lower animals should be manifested in their brain waves — perhaps in some kind of harmony that appears in the brain wave pattern.

The straightforward experimental implication is that the correlation between brain wave patterns and neural impulse patterns should be lower when a person is engaged in creative thought than when engaged in routine activity like adding numbers.14

In accordance with the principle of process, the model implies that a novel idea will be reflected in a novel pattern of brain waves.

For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that brain wave patterns deviate most from patterns of neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.

When the third trimester hits, large - scale linking up of neurons commences, and regular brain wave patterns become measurable.

Researchers looked at the brain wave patterns of babies as a measure of depression.

They found that infants who were breastfed by depressed mothers still had normal brain wave patterns.

Ince developed a pipeline of machine learning algorithms to interpret the brain waves, and after two years his algorithm identified the pattern.

The data showed that when the cell phone was transmitting, the power of a characteristic brain - wave pattern called alpha waves in the person's brain was boosted significantly.

Bierut: The brain is a very complex organ and what's clear is these different types of brain wave patterns are related to numerous complex in our actions between neurotransmitters and some of the brain receptors, and it's some of the balance between how much of these proteins are produced — how are they regulated — are likely to be involved in some of these biologic predispositions.

And what was very interesting was that it was revealed that you could identify that the children of alcoholics had different patterns of brain wave activity than the children of the non-alcoholics, so it really seems to be a biologic predisposition.

The experiment revealed that after the phone was switched to «talk» mode a different brain - wave pattern, called delta waves (in the range of one to four Hertz), remained dampened for nearly one hour after the phone was shut off.

When activated, sensors inside would scan the thousands of brain waves oscillating in a soldier's head; a microprocessor would apply pattern recognition software to decode those waves and translate them into specific sentences or words, and a radio would transmit the message.

And so we found a variant in one of the GABA receptors [that] is associated with alcoholism, and this fits in with some of the brain wave pattern activity that it looks like alcoholism [and] is linked to disinhibition, so [it's] a problem with the inhibition of brain waves that people should generally have.

The team found the painful and painless procedures produced markedly different brain - wave patterns.

The study, led by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, found that younger and older adults show very different brain wave patterns when performing the same memory task.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

By recording neuronal activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves of activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the brain in defined patterns, and that these patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.

Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.

Every time their brain signals settled into the slow - wave pattern characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep, the researchers sent a series of beeps through the headphones, gradually getting louder, until the participants» slow - wave patterns dissipated and they entered shallower sleep.

After the associations between smell and place were well established, the researchers could see a pattern of brain wave activity (the electrical signal from a large number of neurons) during retrieval.

There are clear patterns of brain wave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration and other biological activities linked to this daily cycle.

Patients with fibromyalgia frequently have sleep problems: Their deep sleep brain wave patterns are often disrupted by brain waves that correspond to wakefulness.

Changes in the severity of symptoms were compared in objective tests of ability to concentrate and underlying brain wave patterns.

Those who woke during REM sleep and successfully recalled their dreams were more likely to demonstrate a pattern of EEG oscillations called theta waves in frontal and prefrontal cortex areas — the parts of the brain where our most advanced thinking occurs.

Later, when the rats were asleep and their brain waves indicated that they had entered the stage in which humans normally dream, these same electrical patterns appeared.

Current antipsychotic medications do not target brain - wave patterns.

In addition, during sleep the brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.

Proponents of the idea of multiple personalities have also performed controlled studies of biological differences among alters, revealing that they may differ in respiration rate, brain - wave patterns and skin conductance, the last being an accepted measure of arousal.

The ghostly voices and disordered thought associated with schizophrenia may result from faulty brain - wave patterns — essentially a mind gone out of tune — according to a new study.

Using electroencephalography (EEG), the researchers then measured subjects» brain wave patterns while they were resting with their eyes closed.

But he and other neuroscientists say the study may be fatally flawed because it uses technology that can not reliably distinguish one type of brain wave pattern from

Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The brain wave signals corresponding to the syllable sounds showed a clear pattern tracking the sound waves, which the researchers recorded down to the microsecond.

Previously, users had to fully concentrate on one of three commands — turn left, turn right, or do nothing — creating specific brain wave patterns detected by an electrode - studded cap.

This memory speeds up recognition of sounds in the learner's native language and can be detected as a pattern of brain waves, even in a sleeping baby.

If patients could correct their own brain - wave patterns, Rosenfeld posits, they might be able to lift the gloom from their minds.

In the early 1990s, for example, Richard J. Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, noticed unusual asymmetries in the brain - wave patterns of people with depression.

He found a previously unknown pattern of brain waves with frequencies between 12 and 15 hertz (Hz), or cycles per second, in a part of the brain called the sensorimotor cortex.

Balancing Act Many mental illnesses are accompanied by unusual brain - wave patterns, a fact that offers another possible therapeutic application for neurofeedback.

«The brain has a complicated geometry, and you can imagine a disorganized wave propagating through it so that in certain spots these shockwaves develop and subside, leaving behind damage in this otherwise inexplicable pattern,» Pinton said.