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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

They were these: I saw that the physical organization could no longer subserve the diversified purposes or requirements of the spiritual principle.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

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

When freedom subserves this end, it is a good; when it defeats this end, it is an evil.

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

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

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

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

There were here the best opportunities to employ my talents, since this fruitful land produced in abundance whatever subserved for pleasure and luxury as well as usefulness and comfort.

From Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by John Gierlow

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

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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

But they would subserve, they have subserved, the interests of a true national development.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

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

And if some accuse me of subserving the cause of Catholic reaction, others perhaps, the official Catholics....

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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