subserve

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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 Guyer, Michael F.