How could you prove that the frontal deactivation really did make the improvisers innovate?
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The conductor in our heads lives in the brain's frontal lobes, basically above our eyes.
Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe.
Never use a rear-facing child car seat in a seat protected by an active frontal airbag.
When the pre-frontal cortex is fired up, the explicit system is usually turned on.
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"We perform the frontal crash test exactly in the same way as the Euro NCAP, " he said.
The parieto-temporal region, just behind the ear, and the inferior frontal gyrus, at the front, slowly analyze words.
The frontal cortex even expands in size in this initial phase, as we focus hard on the task.
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People with frontal lobe damage caused by accidents often find difficulty concentrating and are more easily distracted, research shows.
The March sold in Brazil obtained a 7.62 rating in its frontal-impact test.
The frontal lobe of the brain is concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement, emotions, and problem-solving.
It affects the frontal temporal lobe and progresses in various stages depending on form of damage the person has.
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It includes the amygdala, hippocampus, cingulated gyrus, orbital frontal cortex, and the insula.
In battle, the frontal assault is not always the best way to win.
Psychiatrists have long trained the brain's pre-frontal cortex to fight against acute conditions like anxiety, post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorder.
For example, the frontal lobes help with organization, time management, and decision-making, all areas that people with ADD struggle with.
Instead they will adjust their pose as required, shifting from full frontal to coquettish side-on 'you looking at me' stance.
McKee immunostained samples of his brain tissue, and saw big splotches of tau all over the frontal and temporal lobes.
The frontal lobes of the brain, in particular, have enlarged dramatically in humans over the last half million years.
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For example, the frontal lobe, which is linked to decision making and problem solving, is proportionally larger in women than in men.
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The involvement of the frontal lobes is significant for another reason, though: it is the place where Phineas Gage took his hit.
The researchers concentrated on two areas of the brain, the hippocampus and the frontal cortex, areas where plaque formation occurs in humans.
The team suggests lead is having this effect because it attaches itself selectively to sites in the brain's frontal cortex and striatum.
The Brazilian government says its new laws mandating frontal air bags and anti-lock brakes will dramatically improve safety, as will new impact standards.
Frontal system: weather system where there is a line of separation between cold and warm air masses, usually associated with strong winds.
Aging brains rely less on the hippocampus as memory degrades and more on the frontal cortex, which is more focused on reasoning skills.
They found at least 5% lower concentrations of N-acetyl-aspartate in two key areas of the brain, the basal ganglia and frontal white matter.
Perhaps Obama has decided that since quiet pressure has failed to cow Netanyahu, it is time to launch a frontal attack against him.
Avoiding close-up, full-frontal or backview portraiture, Mr Gursky catches people as constituent dots or ciphers in an encompassing landscape or in the urban mass.
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