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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

The body is intended to subserve the highest aims of the soul: it will do so if we live and learn.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

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

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

In short, thinking is an instrument which subserves man's natural laziness, and its test is the efficiency with which it promotes an easy, or, at any rate, a satisfactory mode of existence.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

The fluid with which the mouth is constantly moistened is called mucus, and chiefly subserves to the sense of taste.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

Its function, the end it subserved, determined its value for society—determined whether public opinion should approve or disapprove of it, whether it was a god of the community or the fetich of an individual.

From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

In brief, unless some special purpose is subserved thereby, an audience should not long be left in the dark as to the form in which the dramatist thinks he has cast his play.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

In most plant-movements some obviously useful purpose is subserved: this of Desmodium gyrans is a riddle.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

It is the same which is subserved by the quivering of the leaves of trees.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

If this involves the surrender or postponement of private interests, and the abandonment of local advantages, compensation will be found in the assurance that thus the common interest is subserved, and the general welfare advanced.

From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Lysander Spooner

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 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 Aaron Walker

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

For this is the foremost of metals, subserving many and the greatest needs of man, and abounds in the earth above all other metals, and is predominant.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

But De Fleuri, like almost every one in the community I believe, had his own private schemes subserving the general good.

From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald