Sentences with phrase «using tiny electrodes»

Using tiny electrodes, they monitored the response of brain cells responsible for movement.

As a solution, earlier neuroprosthetic implants used tiny electrodes to detect and record movement signals at their last stop before reaching the spinal cord: the motor cortex.

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Standard cochlear implants function by stimulating nerves using an electrode placed inside the cochlea, a tiny spiral cavity inside the ear.

The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).

So the team plans to attach tiny electrodes to mosquito antennae, which they use to smell, and test them against individual body chemicals.

Intracortical BCIs such as BrainGate use a tiny array of implanted electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons in the motor cortex of the brain.

An intracortical BCI uses a tiny silicon chip, just over one - sixth of an inch square, from which protrude 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain to about the thickness of a quarter and tap into the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the motor cortex.

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid - charging the battery and using it to do high - power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought — and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.

Scott D. Collins, Ph.D., University of Maine, Orono $ 850,000 (2 years) «High - speed Nanopore Gene Sequencing» Skilled in silicon fabrication methods, this group will try to fabricate a nanopore with tiny electrodes and built - in circuits that will be used in experiments that attempt to measure differences in the electron tunneling of individual nucleotides in DNA molecules.