Sentence examples for gyrus from inspiring English sources
noun
A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex.
The anterior cingulate gyrus has been associated with empathy.
In the late 1800s the neuropathologist Karl Wernicke noted that damage to a specific region, the superior temporal gyrus (STG), also known as Wernicke's area, often resulted in problems comprehending speech a condition he named receptive aphasia.But exactly how the STG perceives speech has proven difficult to discover.
By contrast, they found that changes to other structures in the brain, including the orbitofrontal cortex, cerebellum and superior temporal gyrus, were more consistently associated with the disease although not in all children.
For around 90 minutes each day, the electrodes were also stimulated to map the structure of the brain so as to identify language centres and other vulnerable areas.When the current was first applied to the right angular gyrus, the woman reported that she was sinking into the bed, as if falling from a height.
As he reports in Nature this week, Dr Blanke then systematically applied additional electric currents to the woman's right angular gyrus.
The left Heschl's gyrus is bigger than average in professional phoneticians.
At best, researchers can try to fill in gaps between molecular biology and behaviour.In March, Narly Golestani and her colleagues at University College, London, showed that people who are fast at learning the sounds of foreign speech have more densely packed white matter in a part of the brain called the left Heschl gyrus.
Earlier brain-scanning studies have shown that the part of the brain which identifies word shape is in an area called the fusiform gyrus.
"The fusiform-gyrus activation in her brain was not simply similar to normal; it was exactly the same as normal volunteers'".
The more successful also had bigger left Heschl gyruses.
More than two years after charging Olympus and its UK subsidiary Gyrus Group with making false and misleading statements, SFO prosecutors offered no evidence against the two companies at London's Southwark Crown Court.
