But it's unclear what such brain activity patterns would mean for a patient's future.
In the rats' piriform cortex, activity patterns elicited by these similar odours were now different as well.
Among participants, the researchers found synchronization in several key brain areas, and similar brain activity patterns in different people who listen to the same music.
It is currently possible to see brain activity patterns in middle-aged individuals indicative of Alzheimer's disease, but that information doesn't always predict Alzheimer's, he said.
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Like the iOS version it's free, and can be used to log daily meals, as well as view pretty charts illustrating your various sleep and activity patterns.
The EPOC detects and processes real time brain activity patterns (small voltage changes in the brain caused by the firing of neurons) using a device that measures electric activity in the brain.
During that time, says Merzenich, as the patients listen to and repeat words they hear, their brains create new activity patterns to represent pieces of meaningful speech, thus teaching themselves to hear again.
The scientists have likely gotten these new results because, even when a person is in a coma, "parts of the nervous system that are still functioning are capable of learning and capable of changing their activity patterns, " said Dr. Daniel Hanley, professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesia at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who is not involved with Sharon's care.
But in the piriform cortex the odours that rats could tell apart produced distinct patterns of activity, while those they could not distinguish produced identical patterns.
Now another product is arriving that promises to do basically the same thing -- namely, track your activity, sleep patterns and food intake using a wearable gadget and mobile app.
They found that improvement was fastest when the patterns of activity closely resembled those produced during normal walking.
Security experts say patterns of activity on the Internet could indicate that a new computer worm is about to attack.
Crucially, these differences -- whether we turn toward the bright side of life or the dark -- can be traced to specific patterns of activity within the brain itself.
PayPal, Amazon, and Google have all developed sophisticated analytical tools and infrastructure to identify patterns of fraudulent activity.
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The San Francisco-based company makes the Fitbit Ultra, which monitors exercise and activity as well as sleep patterns.
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They used sophisticated statistical analyses to find the relationship between the patterns of brain activity and the content of the videos.
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New research suggests that hoarders have unique patterns of brain activity when faced with making decisions about their possessions, compared with healthy people.
Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.
Lost in the mix are the small-town farmers who reside in tiny enclaves in the isolated hills of southern Mexico, unwilling and in many cases because of poor access to education, unable to shift away from their traditional patterns of economic activity.
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Each day, the scientific community collects millions of individual Earth observations, allowing us to examine, monitor, and model atmospheric composition, seismic activity, ecosystem health, weather patterns, and hundreds of other characteristics of our planet.
Decadal and longer changes in sunspot activity impacting warming and cooling cloud cover patterns are now being recognized as an important factor.
Participants also discussed new-wave techniques to stop new malware from taking root, including studying patterns of user and file activity to find suspicious behavior and broader use of encryption.
They say the expanded financial data would allow anti-terrorist agencies to better understand normal money-flow patterns so they can spot abnormal activity.
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Global temperatures have not varied with CO2, but have followed instead the varying patterns of natural causes, such as solar activity, and ocean temperature cycles.
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Power-law patterns are similar to the statistical distributions of seismic activity, which inspires hope of predicting both types of calamity.
Once you have people sharing knowledge and collaborating, this activity generates its own data, and from a higher level you can start observing patterns.
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