The phrase "activate the area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate the initiation or engagement of a specific location or zone, often in technical or operational settings.
Example: "To begin the experiment, we need to activate the area designated for testing."
Alternatives: "engage the area" or "turn on the area".
If you activate the area of the brain that generates laughter, for example, the subject may happily "explain" that his hilarity stems from an overly earnest looking doctor or an odd diagram on the wall.
It was clearly a response to places, she says; if all a room's furnishings were shown without the floors and walls, the PPA did not respond more than the rest of the brain, but a bare room did activate the area.
Other sounds encountered in our natural environment activate the areas involved in integrating congruent intermodal features of audio-visual stimuli.
The heteroliganded gold nanoisland substrate with the mixed SAM was then partially activated (the area of MPA) to receive esters to covalently tether the protein to the surface of the gold nanoisland.
By using functional brain imaging while stimulating the cells with blue light, they were able to show that it wasn't just the areas being flashed with light that were activated: The areas they are connected to also became active, suggesting that even in the large brains of primates, optogenetics can activate whole networks in the brain.
Overall, Foster [ 17] illustrated that dancing activates the areas in the brain associated with perception, emotions, executive function, memory and motor skills.
Finally, significant group differences in activation were found in the 500 ms (left hippocampus) and in the 1,000 ms (left and right hippocampus, and right thalamus) trial types, where controls activated the areas while patients deactivated (inhibited) them.
In contrast, infants did not show somatotopically-organised activation during action observation, but instead activated the arm areas when observing both reaching and kicking actions.
In contrast, infants did not show somatotopically organised activation during action observation, but instead activated the arm areas when observing both arm and leg actions.
Olfactory receptor neurons then activate the brain area called the olfactory bulb.
To activate the sensing area in the system, students are required to wear the 'red glove' as the marker.
