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Nervous Systems
... a different arrangement in birds and mammals • In mammals, the cerebral cortex has a convoluted surface called the neocortex, which was previously thought to be required for cognition • Cognition is the perception and reasoning that form knowledge • However, it has recently been shown that birds als ...
... a different arrangement in birds and mammals • In mammals, the cerebral cortex has a convoluted surface called the neocortex, which was previously thought to be required for cognition • Cognition is the perception and reasoning that form knowledge • However, it has recently been shown that birds als ...
The medial parietal occipital areas in the macaque
... cortex (mPOC) have been, and still is, a matter of scientific debate. The mPOC is a convoluted region of the brain that presents a high level of individual variability, and the fact that many areas of mPOC are located within very deep sulci further limits the possibility to investigate their anatomo ...
... cortex (mPOC) have been, and still is, a matter of scientific debate. The mPOC is a convoluted region of the brain that presents a high level of individual variability, and the fact that many areas of mPOC are located within very deep sulci further limits the possibility to investigate their anatomo ...
Use of a Recombinant Pseudorabies Virus to
... sulfate-proteoglycan (HSPG) and nectins] redistribution or the gene activation of cortical neurons, which lead to alterations in the functions of their connections. The HSPGs are a group of glycoproteins that carry covalently bound large, unbranched polymers composed of ~20--200 repeating heparin/he ...
... sulfate-proteoglycan (HSPG) and nectins] redistribution or the gene activation of cortical neurons, which lead to alterations in the functions of their connections. The HSPGs are a group of glycoproteins that carry covalently bound large, unbranched polymers composed of ~20--200 repeating heparin/he ...
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... fashion. The mapping becomes more complex, however, when a stimulus space that has more than two dimensions is mapped onto the cortical sheet. Optimizing local continuity then becomes a matter of fitting together disparate pieces in the best compromise possible. For example, at the columnar level, t ...
... fashion. The mapping becomes more complex, however, when a stimulus space that has more than two dimensions is mapped onto the cortical sheet. Optimizing local continuity then becomes a matter of fitting together disparate pieces in the best compromise possible. For example, at the columnar level, t ...
BRAIN Response inhibition and serotonin in autism: depletion
... ASD is restricted, stereotyped and repetitive behaviours (RSRB) (WHO, 1992). There is substantial indirect evidence that these symptoms are underpinned by deficits in executive function and in particular inhibitory control (Hill, 2004). The neuroanatomical systems proposed to be involved in the RSRB ...
... ASD is restricted, stereotyped and repetitive behaviours (RSRB) (WHO, 1992). There is substantial indirect evidence that these symptoms are underpinned by deficits in executive function and in particular inhibitory control (Hill, 2004). The neuroanatomical systems proposed to be involved in the RSRB ...
Biological Bases of Bx Test
... b. hypothalamus. c. motor cortex. d. reticular formation. e. frontal association area. ____ 33. Our lips are more sensitive than our knees to sensations of touch due to which of the following? a. More neurotransmitters are released when the lips are touched. b. A larger area of the sensory cortex is ...
... b. hypothalamus. c. motor cortex. d. reticular formation. e. frontal association area. ____ 33. Our lips are more sensitive than our knees to sensations of touch due to which of the following? a. More neurotransmitters are released when the lips are touched. b. A larger area of the sensory cortex is ...
Representation of the Visual Field in the Human Occipital Cortex
... Consecutive patients with visual field defects and occipital lobe lesions seen in the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, were screened using the central 30-2 threshold program of the Humphrey Field Analyzer (Allergan-Humphrey Instruments, San Leandro, Calif). Patie ...
... Consecutive patients with visual field defects and occipital lobe lesions seen in the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, were screened using the central 30-2 threshold program of the Humphrey Field Analyzer (Allergan-Humphrey Instruments, San Leandro, Calif). Patie ...
PDF - Journal of the American Heart Association
... administered cytochrome c, which did not induce any significant effect on respiration with the digitonin dose used in the present study, indicating intact integrity of the outer mitochondrial membrane (data not shown). The same concentration of digitonin was used for both sham and injured tissue. Rou ...
... administered cytochrome c, which did not induce any significant effect on respiration with the digitonin dose used in the present study, indicating intact integrity of the outer mitochondrial membrane (data not shown). The same concentration of digitonin was used for both sham and injured tissue. Rou ...
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... Pyramidal neurons located in upper layers of the primate prefrontal cortex also provide rich intracortical projections. From large layer III pyramids 80% of synaptic output belongs to local connections coming from axonal side branches (Melchitzky and Lewis, 2003). They extend several millimeters aro ...
... Pyramidal neurons located in upper layers of the primate prefrontal cortex also provide rich intracortical projections. From large layer III pyramids 80% of synaptic output belongs to local connections coming from axonal side branches (Melchitzky and Lewis, 2003). They extend several millimeters aro ...
The Distribution of Immunoreactivity for
... among cerebral cortical circuit structures. Specifically, while recent light microacopic studies have shown that ER proteins are present mainly within subsets of the nuclei of nonpyramidal interneurons (Blurton-Jones and Tuszynski, 2002; Kritzer, 2002), there is some evidence to suggest that androge ...
... among cerebral cortical circuit structures. Specifically, while recent light microacopic studies have shown that ER proteins are present mainly within subsets of the nuclei of nonpyramidal interneurons (Blurton-Jones and Tuszynski, 2002; Kritzer, 2002), there is some evidence to suggest that androge ...
Chapter 49 - Nervous Systems
... ! The two hemispheres work together by communicating through the fibers of the corpus callosum ...
... ! The two hemispheres work together by communicating through the fibers of the corpus callosum ...
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... Lateralization of Cortical Function The two hemispheres make distinct contributions to brain function The left hemisphere is more adept at language, math, logic, and processing of serial sequences The right hemisphere is stronger at facial and pattern recognition, spatial relations, and nonve ...
... Lateralization of Cortical Function The two hemispheres make distinct contributions to brain function The left hemisphere is more adept at language, math, logic, and processing of serial sequences The right hemisphere is stronger at facial and pattern recognition, spatial relations, and nonve ...
Neurobehavioral evidence for individual differences in
... is problematic. Cortical landmarks are variable in the human brain (Thompson et al. 1996), and this problem may be amplified by high morphological heterogeneity in the dog cranium and brain (Wayne 1986). Third, most brain functions are not strictly modular, occurring instead across networks (Farah 1 ...
... is problematic. Cortical landmarks are variable in the human brain (Thompson et al. 1996), and this problem may be amplified by high morphological heterogeneity in the dog cranium and brain (Wayne 1986). Third, most brain functions are not strictly modular, occurring instead across networks (Farah 1 ...
Control of movement direction - Cognitive Science Research Group
... whether the central nervous system uses spatial coordinates, rather than joint or muscle coordinates (Bizzi and Mussa-Ivaldi, 2000; Johnson et al., 2001). This is related to a shift in the main paradigm of motor control, from correlating primary motor cortical neuronal firing with movements of isola ...
... whether the central nervous system uses spatial coordinates, rather than joint or muscle coordinates (Bizzi and Mussa-Ivaldi, 2000; Johnson et al., 2001). This is related to a shift in the main paradigm of motor control, from correlating primary motor cortical neuronal firing with movements of isola ...
Intention, Action Planning, and Decision Making in Parietal
... transformations. This review covers new research on four components of this transformation process: planning, decision making, forward state estimation, and relative-coordinate representations. These sensorimotor functions can be harnessed for neural prosthetic operations by decoding intended goals ...
... transformations. This review covers new research on four components of this transformation process: planning, decision making, forward state estimation, and relative-coordinate representations. These sensorimotor functions can be harnessed for neural prosthetic operations by decoding intended goals ...
Is neocortex essentially multisensory?
... influence orienting behavior. Cats typically show multisensory enhancement of orienting to congruent visual– auditory spatial targets when stimuli are near threshold. When the anterior ectosylvian sulcus or the rostral lateral suprasylvian sulcus is cryogenically inactivated, the multisensory behavi ...
... influence orienting behavior. Cats typically show multisensory enhancement of orienting to congruent visual– auditory spatial targets when stimuli are near threshold. When the anterior ectosylvian sulcus or the rostral lateral suprasylvian sulcus is cryogenically inactivated, the multisensory behavi ...
mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex
... selective attention can modulate neural processing in visual cortex. This modulation of visually evoked activity has been interpreted as a top-down bias facilitating information processing of stimuli at attended locations or of attributes of attended stimuli (Desimone & Duncan 1995, Desimone 1998). ...
... selective attention can modulate neural processing in visual cortex. This modulation of visually evoked activity has been interpreted as a top-down bias facilitating information processing of stimuli at attended locations or of attributes of attended stimuli (Desimone & Duncan 1995, Desimone 1998). ...
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... sory integration Summary: Most cognitive functions are based on highly parallel and distributed information processing by the brain. A paradigmatic example is provided by the ver tebrate visual system where numerous cortical areas have been described which anal yse different types of visual inform ...
... sory integration Summary: Most cognitive functions are based on highly parallel and distributed information processing by the brain. A paradigmatic example is provided by the ver tebrate visual system where numerous cortical areas have been described which anal yse different types of visual inform ...
Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of
... long-range correlation, with the requirement for synaptic renewal at each successive relay. Even the presence of relatively sparse long axons, which provide for high velocity jumps to seed areas over long distances creating small-world effects (Watts and Strogatz, 1998; Kozma et al., 2005), cannot e ...
... long-range correlation, with the requirement for synaptic renewal at each successive relay. Even the presence of relatively sparse long axons, which provide for high velocity jumps to seed areas over long distances creating small-world effects (Watts and Strogatz, 1998; Kozma et al., 2005), cannot e ...
brain –computer interface - Nexus Academic Publishers
... Partially invasive BCI devices are implanted inside the skull but rest outside the brain rather than within the grey matter. They produce better resolution signals than non-invasive BCIs where the bone tissue of the cranium deflects and deforms signals and have a lower risk of forming scar-tissue in ...
... Partially invasive BCI devices are implanted inside the skull but rest outside the brain rather than within the grey matter. They produce better resolution signals than non-invasive BCIs where the bone tissue of the cranium deflects and deforms signals and have a lower risk of forming scar-tissue in ...
Human brain
The human brain is the main organ of the human nervous system. It is located in the head, protected by the skull. It has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but with a more developed cerebral cortex. Large animals such as whales and elephants have larger brains in absolute terms, but when measured using a measure of relative brain size, which compensates for body size, the quotient for the human brain is almost twice as large as that of a bottlenose dolphin, and three times as large as that of a chimpanzee. Much of the size of the human brain comes from the cerebral cortex, especially the frontal lobes, which are associated with executive functions such as self-control, planning, reasoning, and abstract thought. The area of the cerebral cortex devoted to vision, the visual cortex, is also greatly enlarged in humans compared to other animals.The human cerebral cortex is a thick layer of neural tissue that covers most of the brain. This layer is folded in a way that increases the amount of surface that can fit into the volume available. The pattern of folds is similar across individuals, although there are many small variations. The cortex is divided into four lobes – the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe. (Some classification systems also include a limbic lobe and treat the insular cortex as a lobe.) Within each lobe are numerous cortical areas, each associated with a particular function, including vision, motor control, and language. The left and right sides of the cortex are broadly similar in shape, and most cortical areas are replicated on both sides. Some areas, though, show strong lateralization, particularly areas that are involved in language. In most people, the left hemisphere is dominant for language, with the right hemisphere playing only a minor role. There are other functions, such as visual-spatial ability, for which the right hemisphere is usually dominant.Despite being protected by the thick bones of the skull, suspended in cerebrospinal fluid, and isolated from the bloodstream by the blood–brain barrier, the human brain is susceptible to damage and disease. The most common forms of physical damage are closed head injuries such as a blow to the head, a stroke, or poisoning by a variety of chemicals which can act as neurotoxins, such as ethanol alcohol. Infection of the brain, though serious, is rare because of the biological barriers which protect it. The human brain is also susceptible to degenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease, (mostly as the result of aging) and multiple sclerosis. A number of psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and clinical depression, are thought to be associated with brain dysfunctions, although the nature of these is not well understood. The brain can also be the site of brain tumors and these can be benign or malignant.There are some techniques for studying the brain that are used in other animals that are just not suitable for use in humans and vice versa. It is easier to obtain individual brain cells taken from other animals, for study. It is also possible to use invasive techniques in other animals such as inserting electrodes into the brain or disabling certains parts of the brain in order to examine the effects on behaviour – techniques that are not possible to be used in humans. However, only humans can respond to complex verbal instructions or be of use in the study of important brain functions such as language and other complex cognitive tasks, but studies from humans and from other animals, can be of mutual help. Medical imaging technologies such as functional neuroimaging and EEG recordings are important techniques in studying the brain. The complete functional understanding of the human brain is an ongoing challenge for neuroscience.