Sentence examples for brain firing from inspiring English sources
However even a clearly conscious action such as picking up an object seems to have some unconscious precursors, with the brain firing up before you make the decision to act.
A "memory" doesn't exist in any one place in the brain, but is an emergent feature of many different parts of the brain firing in a certain way.
Imaging technology makes it possible to watch the brain firing as it summons a memory, and it shows that a single story — the joke told last Thanksgiving, an old friend's rattling car, a quarrel between lovers — is chopped into pieces, stored in different areas of the brain and then reassembled, with new or different elements that have been added since the original event.
Normal patterns of brain firing are seemingly chaotic, but during a seizure, neurons synchronize and fire convulsively in parallel.
That's like the same place cell in your brain firing when you've taken two steps away from your door and then when you've taken two steps away from your car.
I could see the financial synapses in my husband's actuarial brain firing, and I readied myself for a debate filled with strings of intimidating terms like automatic stabilizer and cost-push inflation.
Other sounds – like white noise – are synaptically depressed so that the brain fires fewer responses and we automatically "tune out".
How can you keep your brain fired up while still being able to afford to buy a round in the sort of bar where the tables and chairs aren't bolted to the floor?
Scientists found that one particular set of neurons in the auditory cortex of the brain fired their electrical impulses only when the participants in the experiment were listening to music.
"You borrow my brain for five seconds, you'd be like, 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard,' " he said, adding that his brain "fires in a way that is — I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm".
A typical neuron in the human brain fires action potentials at 10 Hz, causing the fusion of several hundred synaptic vesicles every second (Sudhof, 2004).
