brain activation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbrainandactivation
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brain
noun
uk/breɪn/us/breɪn/
the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, ...
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activation
noun[U]
uk/ˌæk.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæk.təˈveɪ.ʃən/
the act of making something start or making it ...
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(Definition ofbrainandactivationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At present, however, no data indicate thatbrainactivationcan be demonstrated whenever vivid dream reports are obtained.
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Studies ofbrainactivationbring converging evidence on reading processes and provide neuroanatomical correlates of reading problems.
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Although both groups exhibited comparable behavioral performance, betweengroup differences were evident inbrainactivation.
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Research on such questions has been made possible only very recently, thanks to developments inbrainactivationimaging techniques.
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Unfortunately, they did not refer to changes inbrainactivationand task performance in healthy subjects.
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It is likely that the enhanced reward-seeking behavior evident during adolescence is reflected in differences between adolescents' and adults'brainactivation.
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Imagingbrainactivationinduced by long trains of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Dreaming is caused bybrainactivationin sleep.
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We also examined whether patterns of generalized frontalbrainactivationwere associated with variations with infant behavior.
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In this sense,brainactivationpatterns might be used to confirm a cognitive theory, but they need not constrain that theory.
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The possible contribution of feigning to the pattern of aberrantbrainactivationalso needs to be explored.
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It is possible that a less supportive and stressful environment influences children's patterns ofbrainactivationas well as their behavioral outcomes.
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Moreover,brainactivationduring the viewing of the faces revealed significant between-group differences.
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In its simplest form,brainactivationis defined as the mean firing frequency of brain stem neurons.
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A wary adherent to some form of psychophysical parallelism or correlationism like myself should be content with the proposed correlation between dreaming andbrainactivation.
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Cross-linguistic influence onbrainactivationleft caudate was.
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One of the most promising uses of neuroscience methods concerns the effects of training onbrainactivationand circuitry.
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The advocates of this view argue that the content of dreams is just a haphazard by-product ofbrainactivationduring sleep.
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