This primate epiphany registers as a new pattern of neural activity in the prefrontal cortex.
In many species of crickets, for example, the song is stereotyped, and the pattern of neural activity that produces the song can be detected even in young animals who neither sing nor apparently react to the adult song.
A microgyrus is a small fold in the cortex that results in the normal complement of six layers being reduced to four.More recent work has shown that the formation of microgyria throws the pattern of neural connections between the language centres and the rest of the brain into confusion.
A functional MRI scan, for example, detected a promising pattern of neural responses to spoken language, says Schiff.
Neural context emphasizes that the particular spatiotemporal pattern of neural interactions may hold the key to bridge between brain and mind.
We addressed this issue by examining whether the spatial pattern of neural representations for certain stimulus categories in these regions would change under different attention conditions.
The pattern of neural activity during maintenance of either abstract visual patterns, locations, or their "conjunction" was measured in two experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
This indicates that attention does not modulate the spatial pattern of neural representations involved in category selectivity, but only changes the signal strength relative to the noise level.
In healthy volunteers, the pattern of neural activation in overt execution was best resembled by passive movement, followed by motor imagery, and lastly by movement observation.
Now, a brain scanning study suggests that painful heat excites a specific pattern of neural activity that could hold the key to better diagnosis and treatment of all kinds of pain in the future.
Comparison of these results with previous studies in mothers revealed a high degree of similarity between first-time fathers and first-time mothers in the pattern of neural activation to newborn infant cries.
