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These auditory and reward network pathways likely subserve the mind’s ability to form predictions and expectations during music listening.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2021

Resting-state fMRI has shown that brain networks that subserve motor and even cognitive functions like language, memory and emotion are continuously and dynamically active in the resting brain.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2017

In a paper published in The Lancet in February 1916, he posited a “physical or chemical change and a break in the links of the chain of neurons which subserve a particular function.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is more important if made to subserve practical objects.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake

If translated to humans, these findings have important implications for understanding how the hippocampus subserves various cognitive functions that rely on it, such as episodic memory, navigation and imagination.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2013

It simply subserves, extends, illuminates and liberates Shakespeare's poem.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is only right when it subserves the great end of justice; and if it fail to answer this end it is then worse than worthless.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

But a similar internal gift must direct the skill of every fancy-artist who subserves the luxuries and elegancies of life.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

The real answer to the problem lies in our gradually dawning perception of the high purposes which pain subserves.

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by J. H. (Joseph Hugh) Beibitz

WELFARE, public, subserved by passage of Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 149.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

A dried and even tanned hide, could it have been fitted to her person with sufficient exactness, would have subserved nearly the same purposes.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The sole interest subserved by Direct and Simple Exchanges is that of Labor; and this, though greatest of all, is unorganized, inert, and individually impotent.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

All possible entanglements were thus avoided, while the purposes of the Administration, in so far at least as they subserved the true interests of the country, were substantially accomplished.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

It is doubtful whether this process has subserved the cause of truth; nay, it is certain, I think, that it has produced many perplexing refinements and speculations that have greatly aided the cause of error.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

Considering the hugging behavior and similar part of the gene, the authors say there’s evidence that “the neural mechanisms subserving social behaviors exist in O. bimaculoides.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2018

The first germs of science were very simple, existing in connection with Art, and subserving the purposes of priestcraft.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

In the whole group of leaf-climbers abundant evidence has been given that an organ, still subserving the functions of a leaf, may become sensitive to a touch, and thus grasp an adjoining object.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

Moreover, knowledge subserving direct self-preservation is that which it is chiefly busied in acquiring from hour to hour.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

The soldier might be a roving knight, and the priest a martyr and a saint; but both alike were subserving the interests of that commerce which formed the only solid basis of the colony.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman