Sentence examples for brain activated from inspiring English sources

The regions of the hippocampus involved in performing various tasks are different according to each cognitive domain [ 24]; furthermore, as reported by Rosano et al. in their cross-sectional study using functional MRI, there are heterogeneity in regions of the brain activated by physical activity [ 25].

However, their amygdala, the region of the brain activated by fear, had not forgotten to be afraid; it remained just as ready to generate a fear response.

Professor Freedman and the two political consultants formed a company, FKF Research, and provided a grant for an experiment led by Professor Iacoboni, a neuroscientist known for his work mapping parts of the brain activated when people empathize with others.

When TMS interferes with the subject's ability to perform a task, the implication is that the area of the brain activated with TMS is indispensable to the task.

It also uncovered a new gene variant at another location, known as ODZ4, that suggests neurochemical channels in the brain activated by calcium play a role in boosting the risk of developing the disease.

But the philosopher wants to know whether releasing that chemical or having one's brain activated in that region is essential to being afraid or being in pain or having thoughts of one's father: would beings lacking that particular chemical or cranial layout be incapable of these experiences?

When participants read action-related words such as kick, pick, lick, motor-specific leg, hand, and mouth areas of the brain activate in response to the word, indicating sensorimotor activation in the comprehension of these words (Pulvermüller, 2005).

Transcranial magnetic stimulation, the device used to make my arm twitch, can induce electric currents in extremely precise areas of the brain, activating neurons only in those areas.

It appears to involve more primitive aspects of the brain, activating deep structures that may block pain at a spinal level: similar to how opioid analgesics work".

When the creature encounters something new, its brain activates the pattern that the new thing most closely resembles in order to figure out what to do — whether the new thing is a threatening predator or a philosophical concept.

Finding that the brain "activates" differentially while performing different tasks is therefore gratifying but not surprising.