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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

Every device, every invention, every measure, that does not subserve the interests of the soul, is worthless.

From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

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 is only right when it subserves the great end of justice; and if it fail to answer this end it is then worse than worthless.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

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

He evidently subserves some useful purpose in the avian community, or he would not be treated with so much consideration.

From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

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

These battles he read of every morning subserved no end: the cause stood motionless; only so many blue-coated machines rendered useless: but behind the machines—what?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

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 Horace Greeley

Old ideas linger after they have subserved their purposes.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 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

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 James Anson Farrer

So, doubtless, when beneath thy potence swerving,  'Tis that thou lead'st us by a path unknown, Our seeming deviations all subserving  The perfect orbit round the central throne.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens

Lady Carlisle vainly warns him of his danger in subserving the King's designs.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

But no man is permitted to infringe any one of the great rules of morality and justice, for the sake of subserving the interests of his party.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett