Kandel chs. 17, 18 - Weizmann Institute of Science
... several connected areas of the cortex—where they cause certain populations of cells to discharge. Initially, sensory information is processed in a series of relays, each of which involves more complex information processing than the preceding relay. Sensory fibers project in an orderly pattern from ...
... several connected areas of the cortex—where they cause certain populations of cells to discharge. Initially, sensory information is processed in a series of relays, each of which involves more complex information processing than the preceding relay. Sensory fibers project in an orderly pattern from ...
Imitation, mirror neurons and autism
... repetitive and restricted patterns of behaviour. In those children with autism as opposed to Asperger's syndrome, the disorder has an onset before the age of 3 years and is associated with delayed and abnormal language development [6±8]. The condition is heterogeneous, both with respect to cause and ...
... repetitive and restricted patterns of behaviour. In those children with autism as opposed to Asperger's syndrome, the disorder has an onset before the age of 3 years and is associated with delayed and abnormal language development [6±8]. The condition is heterogeneous, both with respect to cause and ...
- Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute
... Table 1). Five sentences of each type are used for a total of 45 sentences. Sentences are read aloud to the patients in a pseudo-random order, and after each sentence, the subject should indicate by pointing at photographs ‘who did what to whom,’ indicating in canonical order the agent, object and r ...
... Table 1). Five sentences of each type are used for a total of 45 sentences. Sentences are read aloud to the patients in a pseudo-random order, and after each sentence, the subject should indicate by pointing at photographs ‘who did what to whom,’ indicating in canonical order the agent, object and r ...
CS325 Artificial Intelligence Chs. 9, 12 – Knowledge Representation
... O’Reilly RC, Busby RS, Soto R (2003). Three forms of binding and their neural substrates: Alternatives to temporal synchrony. In Cleeremans A, ed., The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration and Dissociation. Oxford University Press, Oxford Quiroga R, Reddy L, Kreiman G, et al. (2005). Invaria ...
... O’Reilly RC, Busby RS, Soto R (2003). Three forms of binding and their neural substrates: Alternatives to temporal synchrony. In Cleeremans A, ed., The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration and Dissociation. Oxford University Press, Oxford Quiroga R, Reddy L, Kreiman G, et al. (2005). Invaria ...
A double-dissociation of English past
... morphology as low-probability phenomena. Methods: Twenty-eight channel event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to past-tense production and subsequently analyzed using a 3-stage strategy. Results: A data-driven algorithm temporally segmented the ERPs into 16 distinct epochs of stab ...
... morphology as low-probability phenomena. Methods: Twenty-eight channel event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to past-tense production and subsequently analyzed using a 3-stage strategy. Results: A data-driven algorithm temporally segmented the ERPs into 16 distinct epochs of stab ...
Occlusion and brain function: mastication as a prevention of
... moderately restricting calories acts to protect against age-related hippocampal deficits (47–50). Likewise in human studies, loss of teeth or disuse of dentures was the factor inducing malnutrition; however, these did not account for the association with cognitive impairment (11). Malnutrition there ...
... moderately restricting calories acts to protect against age-related hippocampal deficits (47–50). Likewise in human studies, loss of teeth or disuse of dentures was the factor inducing malnutrition; however, these did not account for the association with cognitive impairment (11). Malnutrition there ...
The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence
... posterior portion of BA 45. It appears that reordering of clearly marked phrases mainly involves the pars opercularis (BA 44), whereas the (re)computation of arguments that are moved from subordinate sentence parts recruit the posterior portion of BA 45 bordering BA 44. As to sentential semantic asp ...
... posterior portion of BA 45. It appears that reordering of clearly marked phrases mainly involves the pars opercularis (BA 44), whereas the (re)computation of arguments that are moved from subordinate sentence parts recruit the posterior portion of BA 45 bordering BA 44. As to sentential semantic asp ...
Chapter 3
... ake a look at the painting in Figure 3.1. It is pleasing, colorful, and nicely done. It features realistic color, perspective, and shadowing. It seems, perhaps, not extraordinary—except by virtue of its maker. He cannot see at all. Born blind to an impoverished family in Turkey, Esref Armagan starte ...
... ake a look at the painting in Figure 3.1. It is pleasing, colorful, and nicely done. It features realistic color, perspective, and shadowing. It seems, perhaps, not extraordinary—except by virtue of its maker. He cannot see at all. Born blind to an impoverished family in Turkey, Esref Armagan starte ...
Grade 7 ELA Module 4A, Unit 1, Lesson 2
... useful to Dr. Jensen and her sons. Listen for them to say it helped Dr. Jensen realize there was a scientific explanation for her sons’ behavior. It also helped her sons understand why certain behaviors (like taking drugs and staying up all night) are counterproductive for a teenager. Press students ...
... useful to Dr. Jensen and her sons. Listen for them to say it helped Dr. Jensen realize there was a scientific explanation for her sons’ behavior. It also helped her sons understand why certain behaviors (like taking drugs and staying up all night) are counterproductive for a teenager. Press students ...
Grade 7 ELA Module 4A, Unit 1, Lesson 2
... useful to Dr. Jensen and her sons. Listen for them to say it helped Dr. Jensen realize there was a scientific explanation for her sons’ behavior. It also helped her sons understand why certain behaviors (like taking drugs and staying up all night) are counterproductive for a teenager. Press students ...
... useful to Dr. Jensen and her sons. Listen for them to say it helped Dr. Jensen realize there was a scientific explanation for her sons’ behavior. It also helped her sons understand why certain behaviors (like taking drugs and staying up all night) are counterproductive for a teenager. Press students ...
Deconstructing episodic memory with construction
... and what are their roles? Neuropsychological studies of patients with hippocampal damage confirm that the hippocampus is crucial for episodic memory [35,36] and navigation [37]. It has also been demonstrated that hippocampal damage [21,38–40] is associated with an impairment in thinking about one’s ...
... and what are their roles? Neuropsychological studies of patients with hippocampal damage confirm that the hippocampus is crucial for episodic memory [35,36] and navigation [37]. It has also been demonstrated that hippocampal damage [21,38–40] is associated with an impairment in thinking about one’s ...
Devnich Explanation Prospectus
... reminiscent of the task that models of analogy typically solve: Analogical inference is the process of using familiar (“source”) knowledge to reason about a novel (“target”) domain (e.g., Gentner, 1983; Holyoak & Thagard, 1995). Second, explainers have a preference for integrating causal information ...
... reminiscent of the task that models of analogy typically solve: Analogical inference is the process of using familiar (“source”) knowledge to reason about a novel (“target”) domain (e.g., Gentner, 1983; Holyoak & Thagard, 1995). Second, explainers have a preference for integrating causal information ...
CHAP NUM="14" ID="CH - Fullfrontalanatomy.com
... new word parts to flash cards. Emphasize that it is more important to memorize word parts than individual terms, since many important terms can easily be defined by just breaking them down. Point out the relationship between the root cephal/o (head) and encephala/o (brain). Encephal/o can actual ...
... new word parts to flash cards. Emphasize that it is more important to memorize word parts than individual terms, since many important terms can easily be defined by just breaking them down. Point out the relationship between the root cephal/o (head) and encephala/o (brain). Encephal/o can actual ...
fMR-adaptation reveals separate processing regions for the
... participants attended to the surface properties of the same objects, activation was present in more medial and anterior regions in the collateral sulcus (CoS) and the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG). We went on to demonstrate that attending explicitly to texture activated regions in the IOG and the C ...
... participants attended to the surface properties of the same objects, activation was present in more medial and anterior regions in the collateral sulcus (CoS) and the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG). We went on to demonstrate that attending explicitly to texture activated regions in the IOG and the C ...
Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses
... lobes can be massively damaged without significantly impairing the conscious state or its stream of momentary contents [2]. Cerebellum and cortex have similar numbers of neurons, although they differ in cellular morphology and in patterns of connectivity. The cerebellum is thought to involve a large ...
... lobes can be massively damaged without significantly impairing the conscious state or its stream of momentary contents [2]. Cerebellum and cortex have similar numbers of neurons, although they differ in cellular morphology and in patterns of connectivity. The cerebellum is thought to involve a large ...
Ocular Dominance in Human V1 Demonstrated by Functional
... occur well within the hemodynamic lag time of 5–8 s. Therefore the reference waveform was shifted by one image to account for the hemodynamic lag in response to visual stimulation as we have demonstrated previously (Menon et al. 1995). The net result is a clean map (‘‘mask’’) of the cortical ribbon ...
... occur well within the hemodynamic lag time of 5–8 s. Therefore the reference waveform was shifted by one image to account for the hemodynamic lag in response to visual stimulation as we have demonstrated previously (Menon et al. 1995). The net result is a clean map (‘‘mask’’) of the cortical ribbon ...
Neuroscience Newsletter, May 2015 - MSc/PhD/MD
... myelination (Sobottka et al., 2011, Ioannidou et al., 2012). However, due to the physical limitations of imaging such processes, it has not been possible to experimentally support any of these models of myelin wrapping. In order to investigate the myelin biogenesis, a critical step was to understand ...
... myelination (Sobottka et al., 2011, Ioannidou et al., 2012). However, due to the physical limitations of imaging such processes, it has not been possible to experimentally support any of these models of myelin wrapping. In order to investigate the myelin biogenesis, a critical step was to understand ...
Motor-iconicity of sign language does not alter the neural
... Grafton, 2002; Moll et al., 2000). These studies all used a complex, but non-meaningful, sequence of hand movements as the baseline against which tool-use pantomimes were compared. Thus, the superior parietal lobule (SPL) appears to play an important role in the production of meaningful gestures rel ...
... Grafton, 2002; Moll et al., 2000). These studies all used a complex, but non-meaningful, sequence of hand movements as the baseline against which tool-use pantomimes were compared. Thus, the superior parietal lobule (SPL) appears to play an important role in the production of meaningful gestures rel ...
How the body controls brain temperature: the temperature shielding
... tively establish a general phenomenon: the temperature shielding effect of blood flow, which is responsible for brain protection against external cooling. Major mechanisms responsible for body temperature regulation in mammals are well known (see, for example, Ref. 28). In our experiments, the body ...
... tively establish a general phenomenon: the temperature shielding effect of blood flow, which is responsible for brain protection against external cooling. Major mechanisms responsible for body temperature regulation in mammals are well known (see, for example, Ref. 28). In our experiments, the body ...
BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOR
... Neurons do two important things: They generate electricity, and they release chemicals. Nerve conduction is thus an electrochemical process. The electrical properties of neurons have been known for more than a century, but we have only recently begun to understand the chemical processes involved in ...
... Neurons do two important things: They generate electricity, and they release chemicals. Nerve conduction is thus an electrochemical process. The electrical properties of neurons have been known for more than a century, but we have only recently begun to understand the chemical processes involved in ...
Hebbian learning - Computer Science | SIU
... Competitive learning in the Kohonen network To illustrate competitive learning, consider the Kohonen network with 100 neurons arranged in the form of a two-dimensional lattice with 10 rows and 10 columns. The network is required to classify two-dimensional input vectors - each neuron in the netwo ...
... Competitive learning in the Kohonen network To illustrate competitive learning, consider the Kohonen network with 100 neurons arranged in the form of a two-dimensional lattice with 10 rows and 10 columns. The network is required to classify two-dimensional input vectors - each neuron in the netwo ...
Human Neural Systems for Face Recognition and Social
... avoids the confounding factors associated with patient studies, such as any compensatory functional reorganization of the brain. Functional imaging data can indicate which brain regions participate in a perceptual or cogntitive function and how their participation is modulated by other processes, su ...
... avoids the confounding factors associated with patient studies, such as any compensatory functional reorganization of the brain. Functional imaging data can indicate which brain regions participate in a perceptual or cogntitive function and how their participation is modulated by other processes, su ...
Evolutionary Convergence in Nervous Systems: Insights from
... quite common. The behavioral importance of small scale changes on one hand, and the pervasiveness of convergent evolution on the other, have several implications for understanding brain evolution. First, similar abilities may be conferred by convergent rather than homologous circuits, even among clo ...
... quite common. The behavioral importance of small scale changes on one hand, and the pervasiveness of convergent evolution on the other, have several implications for understanding brain evolution. First, similar abilities may be conferred by convergent rather than homologous circuits, even among clo ...
- Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute
... used to determine the speaker’s intended prosodic attitudes [16]. These two dimensions are part of prosody, which is also expressed by modulation of amplitude and related spectral changes. In the current study, only the F0 component will be considered. The working hypothesis of this research is that ...
... used to determine the speaker’s intended prosodic attitudes [16]. These two dimensions are part of prosody, which is also expressed by modulation of amplitude and related spectral changes. In the current study, only the F0 component will be considered. The working hypothesis of this research is that ...