Professor Kirwan, Ashby's mentor at BYU, said. A good night’s sleep is also key to brain development, and HMS researchers have shown that using blue light-emitting screen devices like smartphones before bedtime can disrupt sleep patterns by suppressing secretion of the hormone melatonin.
"Stefania came in really excited about this project, she pitched it to me, and basically sold it to me right there," Boredom is the space in which creativity and imagination happen, he says. However, she appears to have enjoyed her first taste of self-directed research as she plans to pursue a PhD in neuroscience and continue in research. Read: Imagination And Memory Both Access The Hippocampus. "It's really neat that we can see the difference between those two tasks in that small of a brain region."Īshby is currently working as a research associate at University of California, taking neuroimages of patients with psychotic disorders such as shizophrenia. "We were able to see the distinctions even in those small regions of the hippocampus," Ashby said.
The result was that there were statistically distinct areas of the brain responsible for each activity, despite being closely located within the deep centres of the brain. Then, under fMRI testing, the subjects were prompted with various scenarios and the areas of their brain that became active during each scenario was correlated with each scene's familiarity - pure memory, or imagination. They then carried out a questionnaire before putting the subject into the MRI scanner to determine what scenarios were the most novel to them and force them into imagination. The studies - published in the journal Cognitive Neuroscience - required participants to submit 60 photographs of previous life events and use them to create prompts for the "remember" sections.
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