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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

He would certainly not destroy the earth unless there was thereby some noble and beneficent purpose to subserve.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg

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

Professor Virchow's meaning, I admit, required illustration; but I do not clearly see how the quotation from me subserves this purpose.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

But they answer that, so far from this, it subserves, illustrates, protects the doctrine of our Lord's loving kindness and mediation.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

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

Neither art, taste, nor religion is in any way subserved by these unequalled follies.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

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

Such was the purpose subserved by Herschel's theory of the sun.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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

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 History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

It has subserved, and is now subserving, a great and beneficent end.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various

You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald