Sentences with phrase «with brain size»

But if a bug with a brain the size of a grain of sand can adapt to new situations quickly and smoothly, there must be a simpler, more analog way.

Now, it's not obvious what ice, per se, has to do with brain size requirements.

Creationists, however, are unlikely to find the idea of a human with a brain size of 510 cc very appealing.

Now, it's not obvious what ice, per se, has to do with brain size requirements.

The 1 autistic child with a brain size within the 95 % CI of controls had among the greatest prefrontal neuron counts in the study, which raises the question of whether excess prefrontal neuron counts may be present in other autistic children who have near normal or smaller brain sizes.

Bailey and Geary found population density did indeed track closely with brain size, but in a surprising way.

But despite Berger's claims, Stringer doubts a creature with a brain size close to that of a gorilla disposed of its dead deep within a pitch - black, hard - to - navigate cave system, especially since the controlled use of fire for torches was probably also needed.

Then again, if aggressiveness rises with brain size, maybe not.

If so, it would mean that, rather than being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which is what critics have argued all along.

Bees do remarkable things with a brain the size of a pinhead, raising some intriguing questions about the nature of intelligence for David Robson

Breastfeeding, according to all the trendiest news stories, is the best thing ever — it turns your baby into a super genius with a brain the size of a mutated cantaloupe and all but ensures that child's eventual acceptance into an elite university, either Oxford or the Sorbonne, but maybe Harvard as a back - up.

After all... we all know Jesus was a WHITE REDNECK with a brain the size of gnat testicles!

Paper wasps with brains the size of two grains of sand can recognize the faces of their fellow wasps.

Under the Wolpoff / Thorne scheme the new definition of Homo sapiens would include all human ancestors with brain sizes from 850 - 2000 + cc.

Indeed a number of well - known pillars of the legal community with brains the size of a small hatchback have told us, for very good legal reasons, that compulsory mediation is not the way forward.

Not exact matches

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.

This has nothing to do with the size of your brain you obviously are very smart.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15

What I am racking my brain about is I am trying to figure out how to make this into individual / hand size offerings (not requiring a utensil)... I think I am making this too hard and should just put in small cups with spoons.

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

They are born with brains about half the size they'll eventually grow to, on average with 50 % of their adult brain whereas human baby's brains are only about 25 % as big as human adults» brains.

Too many words for those with a peanut sized brain — similar to a dinosaur.

But A. deyiremeda and its neighbors do indicate that hominins with ape - size brains had developed successful adaptations to different environments, says the study's lead author Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

«Reconstructing the evolutionary history of body size has the potential to provide us with insights into the development of locomotion, brain complexity, feeding strategies, even social life.»

«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.»

It is still a long road to approved therapies but a growing body of basic research is fueling a search for drugs that interact with cellular cleanup processes to provide one - size - fits - all approaches for treating a megaclass of brain disorders.

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

The size of the human brain expanded dramatically during the course of evolution, imparting us with unique capabilities to use abstract language and do complex math.

This theory was later broadened to associate brain size with other social characteristics, such as resolving conflicts and allocating food.

THE size of a woman's brain changes throughout her menstrual cycle, with some areas growing by as much as 2 per cent in the run - up to ovulation, when women are at their most fertile.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

«If chimps with their small brain size can conceptually deal with fire, then maybe we should rethink some of the earliest evidence for fire usage,» Pruetz says.

The researchers found that the size and location of brain lesions correlated with vision and motor impairments, but problems with memory were better explained by changes to the networks of brain connections.

Even if brain size accounts for just 10 to 20 percent of an IQ test score, it is possible to conjecture what kind of average scores would be made by a group of people with 30 percent larger brains.

We can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149.

«In addition, when we compared adult brain proportions, we saw that the relationship between brain proportions and size depends on what group of mammals we look at, which is also incompatible with a universal rule for brain proportions.»

Obesity is associated with a constant, low - level inflammation, which Convit thinks explains the change in brain size.

In the study, 160 people with mild cognitive impairment had brain MRI scans to measure hippocampus size.

It is certainly a simpler and more plausible idea than the truth that Cajal saw in his microscope: that the brain is stuffed with billions of tiny cells of many different sizes and shapes.

Now, neuroscientists in Japan who are working with survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have identified one brain region whose size seems to predict susceptibility to PTSD symptoms and another brain region that shrank slightly in people with the highest number of symptoms.

Generally speaking, the larger a mammal's brain, the greater its tendency to play, according to a 2001 Journal of Comparative Psychology study that correlated play with relative brain size across 15 orders, from Rodentia to Primates.

On the fly, neurosurgeons can use the pen - sized instrument on the brain to view the tumor cells with unique fluorescent characteristics that outline the tumor cells.

The research into brain size and pregnancy started with women who developed pre-eclampsia, a syndrome involving high blood pressure and fluid build - up that affects some pregnant women, causing their faces, legs and arms to swell.

With a volume of 1200 to 1500 cubic centimetres, our brains are three times the size of those of our nearest relative, the chimpanzee.

This means that a group of risk genes is connected with a reduction in the size of a critical region of the brain before the disorder manifests itself.

This article was originally published with the title «Brain size has increased for most of our existence, so why has it started to diminish for the past few thousand years?»

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

This study is complementary to another that found adults with anorexia and individuals who had recovered from this illness also had differences in brain size, previously published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 2013.