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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

Many Tropic Responses Apparently Purposeful.—The query arises as to why if these responses are mechanical they are so often apparently purposive; that is, why do they so often subserve some useful end for the animal?

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

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

I have devoted much thought to the question, what purpose this peculiarity subserves in the economy of the universe.

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

Now, not all desires are religious; and the question, which is purely a question of fact, arises whether the desires which fetichism subserves are religious.

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

It is no longer a restless agent, without definite aim; it has a large field of exertion assigned to it, and it subserves those social interests which it would naturally trouble.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

It is noticeable that these decisions have been made only when the interests of these corporations were to be subserved.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

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

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

In this way he knows that every interest of the empire, even its integrity, would be best subserved.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

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

It is further observed that the Veda thus apprehended through reading spontaneously gives rise to the ideas of certain things subserving certain purposes.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut

I think every Person's Aim should be to be subserving as much as possible, to the Delight and Amusement of his Fellow-Creatures.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney

If it should prove otherwise, Congress can at any time amend those laws in such manner as, while subserving the public welfare, not to jeopard the rights, interests, and liberties of the people.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

Moreover, its horizon is so limited as to exclude philosophy from the realm of German actuality unless it imagines philosophy to be implied in German practice and in the theories subserving it.

From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning