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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

Even now the mechanism in the dog is not sufficiently precise to subserve the only function which occasionally and abortively it attempts to perform.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

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

Fair dealing and kindliness, prudence and economy in order to procure the comforts and simpler luxuries of life, reading and knowledge for those uses which wisdom subserves, constituted the real essence of his teaching.

From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

Mild benediction waves his saintly arm— So, good! but what we want’s a perfect man, Complete and all alive: half travertine Half suits our need, and ill subserves our plan.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Here, only, does language attain to that specialization of parts where each element subserves its own purpose and no other, and here only does it correspond with clear and connected thinking.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

He resumed his reading and docketing, by the light of the little lamp which had just subserved the purposes of a spy.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

No political purpose was to be subserved by this order of the Cincinnati, save in so far as the members pledged to one another their determination to promote and cherish the union between the states.

From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske

More than that, he had set his hand to guiding the bark of their young lives into the safe harbor of a home, and all feelings of his own subserved to that.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Charles Clark Munn

Upon the whole, it must be insisted that religious belief has subserved a large purpose in the economy of human progress.

From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar

There were here the best opportunities to employ my talents, since this fruitful land produced in abundance whatever subserved for pleasure and luxury as well as usefulness and comfort.

From Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by John Gierlow

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

Here is something distinctly and clearly subserving that making of mankind upon which all sane social and political proposals must ultimately base themselves.

From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And if some accuse me of subserving the cause of Catholic reaction, others perhaps, the official Catholics....

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

Unscientific introspection 319:3 Science depicts disease as error, as matter versus         Mind, and error reversed as subserving the facts of         health.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The natural and the supernatural, without any incongruity, are blended as being all under one control, all subserving the same great ends, as in the Hebrew Bible.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney