Sentence examples for preserving connections from inspiring English sources

"The idea is that if the net is loose, any synapse can come in and make contact," whereas a tight net prevents new synapses from forming, preserving connections that were established before, he says.

Also, The Owl Service by Alan Garner gave rise to surprising conversations with my 10 year-old about landscape, and the connections between culture, history and the environment, as well as the importance to humans of preserving those connections.

Perhaps Frum is simply preserving his connections.

They were for preserving the connections of immigrants to their traditions, and for imagining worlds better and more hopeful than those they had left behind or in now.

All the corollary and not inconsiderable work of creating characters and plot, as well as a plausible place and time in which to put them, I undertook as the only means I had of preserving my connection to my grandfather.

It's where we internalize the belief that preserving a connection -- and someone else's opinion of us -- is more important than saying what we really think.

The above results fit our proposed framework: holding a baby on the left exposes the mother's face in the upper right visual field, the quadrant entrusted by evolution to be critical for emotion separation, likely through preserving ipsilateral connection to the right amygdale.

Although we assume that flexible relational encoding always depends on the hippocampal memory system, our second hypothesis predicts that a certain amount of preserved hippocampal tissue and preserved hippocampal connections to neocortex may suffice unconscious but not conscious flexible relational encoding.

Gore has been careful to preserve his connections with the traditional Democratic base.

Leaving this tissue in place preserves nerve connections to the sinoatrial node, a patch of electroconductive tissue that regulates heartbeat.

It still preserved its connections with other parts of Europe, however, and it ruled a large territory that stretched from the northern lakes to the steppe and from the then uncertain Polish frontier to the Volga and the Caucasus.