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In particular, scientists tend to see preparatory brain activity as proceeding stepwise, one bit at a time, to a final decision.

They took students who said they were madly in love, put them into a brain scanner, and looked at their patterns of brain activity.

Even young women recovering from anorexia who have maintained a healthy weight for over a year had vastly different brain activity patterns.

Just a week online increased brain activity twofold in the oldest Internet users studied, according to the scientists.

He put the children in a scanner that displays brain activity, and showed them a video of someone getting hurt.

Scientists did not implant the chips into the rats' brains, reported PopSci, but instead used electrodes to replicate brain activity.

The science establishment has an agenda to prove that the mind consists entirely of brain activity and has no non-material component.

In terms of brain activity, anticipating the future and remembering the past seem to be related.

Brain activity was as rats ran along a T-shaped maze, in which they had to learn to turn left or right in response to a sound.

In work at his lab, mice given access to running wheels had about 50 percent less BMP-related brain activity within a week.

The subjects were hooked up to a machine which recorded brain activity and were then given a task to perform.

The system lights up each key on the keyboard but is able to notice a difference in brain activity when the desired letter for input is lit.

Various techniques for studying dominance do seem to show that people with schizophrenia have more right-brain activity.

Despite the difference in brain activity on and off estrogen, participants' scores did not change.

Nevertheless, brain activity can be recorded on an EEG just by taping a few electrodes to someone's scalp.

Talks about Brain Training. Introduces the concept of the title : using software to stimulate brain activity .

Dr Georgopoulos's insight was to wonder if the general hum of brain activity contains diagnostic information.

'Embryos begin to cycle through a variety of brain states and are even capable of showing waking-like brain activity. '

By measuring brain activity, Kinsley tracked these variations through a variety of techniques including differences in gene expression.

Instead of looking at the flow of blood as a marker of brain activity, it will look directly at the biochemistry that underlies thought.

The study was conducted in England and took place in a sleep lab where brain activity was monitored and recorded sounds were played.

The cooler white and blue light emitted by a computer monitor stimulates brain activity and makes it difficult for your brain to wind down.

He said it appears that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage in a much deeper level of brain activity.

One is to look for signatures of consciousness in brain activity, in the hope that this takes us closer to understanding what it is.

In this state we dream the most and our brain activity eerily resembles that of waking life.

The research team analyzed and re-analyzed the MRI scans to see if they could find any brain activity that would do better.

The brain activity also occurred in the putamen and insula, two areas activated when people viewed the face of a loved person.

Such findings have prompted speculation about what all this resting brain activity is for.

Brain activity increased each time the women looked at a photo, whether or not it depicted a white man.

An hour and a half after waking, early birds and night owls were equally alert and showed no difference in attention-related brain activity.

To track these reverberations, Dr. Tononi and his colleagues recorded brain activity with a mesh of scalp electrodes.

A person is thought to have died when he stops breathing, his heart stops beating, and his brain activity ceases.

Dancing with your baby provides vital brain activity, stimulates growth and develops coordination and awareness of rhythm in babies.

The researchers also believe their study offers clues as to what may be essential brain activity for couples to stay in love.

The main objective of this study was to illuminate how brain activity differs when promises are kept and when they are broken.

EEG analysis is an effective noninvasive approach for us to understand the mechanism of brain activity.

Furthermore, there was a direct correlation between brain activity and performance in the blind.

As one component of a delicately balanced system for regulating brain activity, GABA functions to inhibit brain activity.

Dr Cerf hopes to eventually compare people's memories of their dreams with an electronic visualisation of their brain activity.

Likewise, a balanced diet and plenty of aerobic exercise are very important factors in promoting healthy brain activity and memory.

Such a happy mood, inspire and mobilize the height of children brain activity.

There are many other such cases of perceptual incompleteness, and the same types of brain activity paper over incomplete memories as well.

Taken together, my genetic markers and my brain activity seemed like a recipe for investing disaster.

To measure brain activity, the technique uses imperceptible electrical currents produced by electrodes placed on the head.

Currently scientists are able to probe human brain activity in several ways.

The timing of this intent-related brain activity occurred after participants had decided how blameworthy the student was.

Ned Herrmann is an educator who has developed models of brain activity and integrated them into teaching and management training.

A network of 124 electrodes stuck on the scalp and face of each baby also recorded brain activity during the experiments.

The robot was designed by the Japanese agency and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to move by responding to brain activity signals.

Dr. Goadsby and colleagues at UCSF are conducting more imaging studies to determine what brain activity occurs during the premonitory phase.

However, evidence has increasingly shown that brain activity during sleep is very similar to its activity while learning.

Brain-computer relies on light and sound stimuli to stimulate people's senses and the corresponding brain activity of the small computer.

Imaging machines are far too big and complex to be used in workplaces to monitor the brain activity of people engaged in important tasks.

In near-death experiences, people report vivid memories, feelings and thought processes even when there is no measurable brain activity.

Conversely, an increase in right-brain activity supports the idea that the creative, impulsive subconscious mind takes the reigns.

But it now appears that sometimes a localised change in brain activity can be involved.

The scans didn't show the same brain activity of a woman during an actual orgasm.

Those participants with the fastest responses, both in sleep-deprived and well-rested conditions, showed similar patterns of brain activity.

Their findings contradict previous suspicions that human errors result from brief fluctuations in concentration or brain activity.

By disrupting brain activity in a particular region, neuroscientists can sway people's views of moral situations.

On both occasions, they were left in a dark and quiet room while their brain activity was monitored.

But existing devices deliver stimulation on a set schedule, not in response to abnormal brain activity.

More recently, it has become clear that brain activity also shows signs of self-organised criticality on a larger scale.

By disrupting brain activity, the toxin in turn alters psychological processes supported by these neurons, notably cognitive control.

Researchers recorded their brain activity and found that empathy is as deeply rooted in the human psyche as fear and anger.

anxious about the mental cost of aging , older people are turning to games that rely on quick thinking to stimulate brain activity.

Pop psychology sometimes associates creativity with right or forehead brain activity or even specifically with lateral thinking.

Expert players showed enhanced brain activity in these regions and responded quicker to the movements of their opponents.

Each participant had four MRI scans which revealed how their brain activity changed when their perception of the pain reduced.

Malignant tumors indicate often lethal brain conditions, but even nonmalignant growths can preempt normal brain activity.

A broad body of experimental work has demonstrated that apparently spontaneous brain activity is not random.

The female participants were exposed to these different scents while researchers monitored their brain activity.

Enhancing estrogen levels for women through regular sexual activity enhances overall brain activity and improves memory.

Further, piano lessons involves an interplay of both right and left brain activity that stimulates neural development.

Monitoring of individuals' brain activity can instantly reveal all private experiences and observations of others.

The two dozen subjects each spent an hour inside an fMRI scanner watching four programs while their brain activity was measured.

The volunteers slept overnight in the laboratory while their brain activity was recorded using an electroencephalogram.

Experiments by Johnson and colleagues indicate similar changes in brain activity whether rats are exposed to drugs or salt deficiency.

The latest study shows that the metabolic changes resulting from weight loss are mirrored in altered brain activity.

In a new study, MIT neuroscientists have identified the brain activity that appears to control this skill.

The machine recorded brain activity as twelve blind people and twelve sighted people performed tasks involving sound and touch.

While researchers monitored their brain activity using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors.

They claim to have developed a system which allows them to record higher level brain activity.

Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored.

Since active brain cells require glucose, the increase suggests that cell phone radiation is boosting brain activity.

More than pictures and videos can be decoded from brain activity, however.

The electrode produces a signal indicating brain activity of the monitoring subject.

Libet recorded brain activity several hundred milliseconds before people expressed their conscious intention to move.

Wilson: Heart rate still climbing. Brain activity is off the charts.

If Dr. Niedenthal's model is correct, then studies of dominant smiles should reveal different patterns of brain activity.

Dreams may be just how our consciousness interprets brain activity during sleep, he says.

This time, researchers monitored the kids' brain activity using fMRI while showing them the same pictures.

Boredom is not wrong in any manner, give peace to the brain and promote a steady inclination of brain activity.

This brain activity can cause your muscles to shrink a bit.

The team also measured brain activity while subjects napped using an electroencephalogram.

To pick up brain activity, the skullcap is covered in electroencephalographic (EEG) electrodes.

Meyer-Lindenberg suspects that city living actually causes these differences in brain activity.

These examples show how tricky it is to find correlations between behaviour and differences in brain structure and brain activity.

By the end of the study, those who had meditated showed a pronounced shift in brain activity toward the left, "happier, " frontal cortex.

During blinking, brain activity was suppressed in areas that respond to visual input, the scientists report.

The extraordinary findings emerged from an analysis of brain activity in patients and counsellors in therapy sessions.

Previously, Komisaruk has compared brain activity during stimulation of the vagina, clitoris and cervix.

Then they put six professional jazz pianists inside to measure brain activity while they played straight and when they improvised.

Over the past decade, however, machines for measuring brain activity have proliferated .

Today, I found out that brushing your teeth with the opposite hand stimulates brain activity in the morning.

We found that the brain activity was uncannily similar when viewing both types of imagery.

In another experiment, women were asked to smell samples of male sweat, and their brain activity was monitored.

Smith and Squire assessed the brain activity associated with the recollection of old and new memories.

As suspected, the smoking gun is in his brain activity.

Rather than eyeballing EEGs, as researchers had done in the past, the program teases apart the complicated patterns of brain activity.

Then, in 2008, NeuroImage published a study of the brain activity of people with complicated grief.

But scientists remind us that current brain scans only show areas of brain activity in response to simple stimuli.

Instead, their average brain activity was little different from their younger counterparts when presented with the distracting face.

They were asked to wear an electrical device that measures brain activity.

They were later invited back to the lab to retake the test while the scientists scanned their brain activity.

Now a rare assessment of brain activity just before death offers clues about why such experiences occur.

The scanner captured images of their brain activity during these exercises.

The gene-altered lab mice also had reduced density of neuron development, a key measure of brain activity.

A new study, however, provides evidence that resting brain activity is involved in motor learning.

Honesty-related brain activity may be too subtle for such techniques to pick up.

Dr Ellenbogen monitored the brain activity of 12 healthy men and women who spent three nights in his sleep laboratory.

GABA is a chemical naturally released in certain parts of the brain in order to inhibit brain activity.

Dinstein's team recorded brain activity in sleeping toddlers with typical development, language delay, and autism.

So when you want to find ways to enhance our brain activity, you perversely have to show that we are currently sick and need treatment.

Then they studied the subjects' brain activity while they played back the recordings.

In the new study they show that PRG-1 deficient mice develop very severe seizures due to changes in brain activity.

Mimicking a friendly smile produces a different pattern of brain activity.

The volunteers slept in the laboratory while their brain activity was recorded.

Identifying natural images from human brain activity.

The brain activity involved in hearing, understanding and then saying a word would follow a definite pattern.

Peak brain activity occurred during a short period of silence between musical movements - when seemingly nothing was happening.

Kicking up that brain activity, in turn, increases feelings of romantic love.

Sensors monitored the subjects' brain activity.

While the subjects caught some Zs, the researchers monitored their brain activity. They then subjected the sleepers to [NOISE] or [NOISE].

After brain activity ends, doctors can keep the other organs alive with machines.

Pruessner and colleagues studied the brain activity of healthy volunteers from urban and rural areas.

A less invasive approach relies on electrodes on the scalp to pick up brain activity.

Radical Cure: Inhibit a receptor to slow brain activity to normal levels.

So the team expected the brain scans would show a decrease in brain activity in this area.

Electrodes attached to their scalp measured their brain activity.

The volunteers had cell phones placed against both ears while the scientists made images of their brain activity.

Starting from brain activity alone, his model should be able to deduce, for example, an image's overall brightness.

Women have more complicated mental processes than men, which is why females have very dynamic brain activity.

The BGU technology features a helmet equipped with 14 EEG connect points that sense brain activity.

The researchers also found that a type of brain activity called sleep spindles played a role in the ability to remember new words.

When asked to fake an orgasm, the women's brain activity increased in the cerebellum and other areas related to controlling movement.

Measurements of brain activity have shown that 20 years into marriage, 90 percent of couples have lost the passion they originally felt.

Gallant hopes to develop methods of interpreting other types of brain activity measurement, such as optical laser scans or EEG readings.

The new findings will add to the limited knowledge of how marketing affects brain activity.

The team followed the brain activity of 16 right-handed people while they rested or watched a video.

He wants to record the patient's brain activity and analyse the way he dreams.

Again, brain activity was recorded.

Scientists have picked up fragments of people's thoughts by decoding the brain activity caused by words that they hear.

With PET scans and functional MRI, we can observe fluctuations in brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow and levels of nutrients.

At the same time, their brain activity patterns are recorded, analyzed, and stored by a computer.

In the deeper stages of non-REM sleep brain activity is slower.

He played each a series of words for five to 10 minutes while recording their brain activity from the electrode nets.

During REM sleep, there is increased brain activity and visual stimulation. Intense dreaming occurs as a result.

DMN dominates brain activity when a person isn't doing much of anything, such as watching TV or daydreaming.

According to the study, the polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in fish help to stimulate brain activity, so it protect from depression.

There is less brain activity in the brain of an addict.

According to the study, when people identify the object "symmetry" , corresponding peak values in the brain activity occurs.

Want to know when lying brain activity what subtle change?

From the brain activity of the circumstances, it can be said this is because not adept at utilizing the sake of endorphins.

Intendix works using an EEG-sensitive cap that measures brain activity that is focused in a particular way.

In the study, 12 volunteers watched an image while researchers monitored their brain activity using MRI scans.

When the rat's brain activity jumps, the rescuers know that someone is alive. The rat has smelled that person.

Henry Loomis even took part in his father's experiments on measuring brain activity.

The researchers also measured brain activity in 32 younger (18- to 35-year-old) adults.

"This is her brain activity right now, real time, " Kishiyama says.

For example, during rest, brain activity slows down to an alpha rhythm of about eight to 10 hertz, or cycles per second.

Not only does that change contribute towards making a mistake, but also the type of brain activity is detectable before the mistake is made.

Now, researchers in Japan have measured the brain activity of honeybees when they form this killer ball.

I am concerned about their own inner feelings and more concerned with their own brain activity: I want to rest, warm to rest.

Honeybees' brain activity may help them maintain the 46C temperature on the inside of the ball

Cognitive behaviour therapy affects brain activity differently from antidepressants

Health aging modulation of the resting state human brain activity in visual cortex

This technique uses electrodes to record the electrical field produced by brain activity

Can a Brain Scan Predict a Broken Promise? A new study suggests that brain activity may give away dishonest intent

Brain Activity Complexity Analysis to Rat Under Different Depth of Anesthesia

he had a momentary burst of increased brain activity

Electronic diagnosis of brain activity

ZEBRA FINCHES dream when they are asleep with brain activity that mirrors that which occur during bird song;

In this discussion we will focus on threeexemplary states: (i) normal, ongoing brain activity in resting or cognitive states;

Research on brain activity shows that what we know as