We postulated that phasic brain activity would be associated with active pedaling, consistent with a cortical role in locomotor tasks.
A likely assumption would be that, without a fresh supply of oxygen, any sort of brain activity would go flat.
Also, the team used drugs to suppress brain activity - would the decapitated brains have been aware if they hadn't?
The experiment was based on the idea that brain activity patterns of paedophiles would differ from those of heterosexual males, when confronted with pictures of naked children or nude adults.
Brain activity patterns differ from person to person, even for an identical stimulus.
If someone's brain activity patterns differ significantly from those of the face-gazing baseline, the scientists know immediately that the person's attention is drifting, sometimes even before the person knows this.
Finally, we would also predict that excitatory postsynaptic potential time courses themselves would differ in different neuron types, activity states, developmental stages, and brain areas, as has been seen in experimental work [30, 42], in a way that is interrelated with the dynamic properties of the postsynaptic neurons involved.
Indeed, in the latter case, the amount of distractor-related brain activity did not differ between blinkers and non-blinkers (see Figures 6A and B).
You've probably experienced fluctuating moods with the seasons, but there's a good chance you never realized that your brain activity also differs based on seasonal changes -- varying between spring, summer, fall and winter -- as a new study has shown.
Group comparisons identified nine regions where brain activity during PPI differed significantly between TS and healthy subjects.
