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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

In The Trial, setting and camera steadily subserve the subject.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was secretive, and communicated no more of his own thoughts and purposes than he thought would subserve the ends he had in view.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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 subserves the progress of the human race.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry

Professor Virchow's meaning, I admit, required illustration; but I do not clearly see how the quotation from me subserves this purpose.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

In a word, everything is infinite, and subserves an infinite purpose.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

It is obvious that perfectly different ends are subserved by increasing the aperture and by increasing the power of a telescope.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The end is fairly though not cheaply subserved.

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

Such was the purpose subserved by Herschel's theory of the sun.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The magnification of the image reminds us of the second purpose which is subserved by a telescope.

From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman

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

Clearly all that I could do was to invite them to enter on the same road, myself only subserving the humble functions of a signpost.

From Books Condemned to be Burnt by Farrer, James Anson

It will at once occur to the reader that the illusion of self-esteem, discussed in the last chapter, may have been highly useful as subserving individual self-preservation.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"The elements of the inorganic world are subserving the purposes of organic life."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 by Walker, Aaron