Sentences with phrase «what brain scientists»

In the future, we'll be able to finally multitask in a way that works, despite what brain scientists say about our brains only focusing on one task.

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By working with scientists who specialize in the brain and the immune system, Kelley hopes to find out what these conditions have in common so the team can eventually figure out what causes them.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

This falls in line with what scientists know about how the brain navigates space and improves memory in the real world.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

So what can scientists learn by measuring your brain activity when, say, you listen to a cello solo or view a piece of art?

Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

These scientist, and doctors, can not remake skin, bone, eyes, brains, oval eggs, sperm, none of the sort, so they have no real answer to create a life other than how procreation works, where again what, and how is the very first man, or woman, animal, other creatures, either in the sea, or creeping on this earth was originally created from, as where did they first come from?

Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

What's more, scientists believe that a dog's brain and that of a child are almost identical.

Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice.

What advice can brain scientists give politicians to help get their message across?

The work should help scientists understand precisely what goes wrong in the brains of patients and help them design better therapies, Costa says.

Knowing what the master genes are could give scientists targets for new pharmaceuticals to treat brain diseases.

Which, of course, begs the question: What would be the impact on the Dutch brain drain if all the brilliant young scientists were to move into management consultancy?

And with more information on how the brain forms its network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that network is injured or malformed.

In other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain - scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they do.

Scientists are starting to learn what is going on in the human brain during these complex cognitive feats, and some of the findings are coming from unexpected sources.

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

So Alkire and other scientists are using neuroimaging to peer into the anesthetized brain to see what happens when it succumbs.

This might enable scientists to begin to clarify what brain irregularities characterize those illnesses.

In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning.

Scientists would then be able to look at the slices with microscopy and other techniques to learn precisely what the brain looked like, right down to the cellular level.

But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so scientists weren't sure what the region did.

When J.B. MacKinnon, a Canadian freelance writer, approached Honnold about having scientists look at what goes on in his unusual brain, the climber said he once would have been afraid to submit himself to such scrutiny.

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

After the seminar, Bolles let me pick his brain concerning what he thought scientists should look for when they consider a new job opportunity.

ALTHOUGH SCIENTISTS HAVE not pinpointed exactly what goes on in the brain when a person experiences dj vu, they can make good guesses based on models of memory.

Ever since his death in 1955, scientists have asked what featurs of Albert Einstein's brain contributed to his extraordinary insights into physical laws.

Scientists from the department of social neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) together with colleagues from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) explored the question at what age we develop the motivation to watch, from our perspective, a deserved punishment and if this feature also exists in our closest relatives — chimpanzees.

If scientists better understand how the brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.

Each was what scientists call a retinal flash — a physiological marker that occurs when a galactic cosmic ray slashes through a person's brain.

Scientists are still trying to figure out what causes this progressive and irreversible brain disorder.

As microglia are very long - lived, the scientists were keen to find out whether environmental factors change these immune cells over time and what effect this can have on brain health.

«What the MRI shows is that there are still changes occurring in the brain even after the clinical tests have returned to normal,» said Ravi Menon, PhD, professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a scientist at Robarts Research Institute.

But what if scientists could prevent the brain from rousing itself hundreds of times per night in response to rising CO2 levels, while allowing it to reestablish regular respiration again?

And thanks to an unprecedented study now being launched, scientists will be able to examine those changes in depth, using MRI to define what normal growth looks like — and helping clarify what can go awry in teenage brains.

Untangling the tightly woven neuronal tapestry to discover what is real is one of the challenges scientists confront when crossing the brain - mind divide, linking the physics of excitable matter to ephemeral subjective, conscious experience, the most real thing there is.

The approach aims to reset the activity of fusiform cells, which normally help our brains receive and process both sounds and sensations such as touch or vibration — what scientists call somatosensory inputs.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

We have all experienced the «aha» moment when a joke suddenly makes sense, and scientists have long tried to figure out what happens in our brain during that crucial split second.

Myelin is the protective sheath that insulates nerve fibers in the brain, and it is the primary site of injury in MS.. What's more, the scientists were able to pinpoint a specific protein in the blood, the blood - clotting factor fibrinogen, as the trigger for the disease - causing process.

«This is the kind of study where you think «Yes, I can believe these results,»» because they fit well with what scientists know about fetal brain development, says cognitive scientist Karin Stromswold of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

For example, scientists have not been able to resolve what function the HTT gene serves normally, or how its mutation creates problems in the brain.

In research that builds upon the Nobel Prize - winning science, UC San Diego scientists have developed a micro-surgical procedure that makes it possible to remove the area of the rat's brain that contains grid cells and show what happens to this hard - wired navigational system when these grid cells are wiped out.

Scientists have an incomplete understanding of what happens when a child's brain slams up against the inside of the skull during a blow to the head and how this affects neurological development.

Bearden says she and her team are collaborating with other scientists to investigate brain structural differences in animal models, to find out what causes them at the cellular level.

The researchers could not explain with certainty what the findings mean — they do not have the kind of access to the women's brains that scientists have to rodents», for instance — but they speculate that the gray matter losses might confer an adaptive advantage, Hoekzema says.