Sentences with phrase «as firing of a neuron»

Thus, light - sheet systems have become the next wave in live - cell imaging for many scientists interested in high - speed cellular activities, such as the firing of neurons or the flowing of blood cells.

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The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

If the action under consideration takes longer than the firing of the neuron, as in the case of uttering a sentence, then it would appear that an action can exercise power on an event that ended before the action itself ended.

If matter is all there is, then ultimately what you think of as your mind is nothing more than a collection of neurons firing inside your skull.

The firing of a neuron is also an event, as is the aching of a tooth.

On a scientific level, she would have known well enough that as she looked at her baby, a whole bunch of neurons firing on overdrive in her brain would be producing a set of chemical reactions and hormones, and that those would be contributing to the emotional urge to protect and care for her newborn son with every ounce of her being.

As I mentioned before, our subconscious understanding of the laws of the universe does not question the perfection which allows us to breath, drink, eat, and procreate, it simply understands that perfection because ultimately every cell division, firing of a neuron, lysis of a cell, infection etc. is subject to those laws, whether we consciously see them as perfect or noAs I mentioned before, our subconscious understanding of the laws of the universe does not question the perfection which allows us to breath, drink, eat, and procreate, it simply understands that perfection because ultimately every cell division, firing of a neuron, lysis of a cell, infection etc. is subject to those laws, whether we consciously see them as perfect or noas perfect or not.

I peeled and cored apples and fell in love all over again, as I do every year, with the smell of sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg and lemon together, neurons firing as I watched the caramel pour out in thick ribbons of warm toasty goodness.

Josselyn described her work tracing the firing patterns of small collections of neurons as they compete to embed memories.

The researchers used a technique called magnetoencephalography, which detects the firing of neurons as changes in the brain's magnetic field, to monitor the responses of the auditory cortex to the tones.

When a group of neurons fire simultaneously, the activity appears as a brainwave.

«The earlier research with animals showed that many of the firing patterns that seem so confusing when we look at individual neurons become clear when we look at large groups of neurons together as a dynamical system,» Pandarinath said.

This method was mainly invented to overcome the technological barrier to measure the activity from many neurons simultaneously, using the assumption that each neuron tends to fire spikes of a particular waveform which serves as its own electrical signature.

Instead of activating a small sphere of surrounding neurons as expected, the electrodes caused sparse strings of neurons to fire across the brain.

The potential for brainlike machines emerged as early as 1943, when neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts proposed an idealized mathematical formulation for the way networks of neurons interact to cause one another to fire, sending messages throughout the brain.

Unlike traditional chips that process combinations of 0s and 1s as binary code, neuromorphic chips process spikes of electrical current that fire in complex combinations, similar to how neurons fire inside a brain.

For years, researchers have regarded the ability to watch an organism's neurons fire — at high resolution, as the animal behaves naturally — as the pinnacle of brain observation.

The first chirp triggers a spike of voltage in some auditory neurons, which in turn causes some other neurons to fire as well.

After isolating sensory neurons from frogs and eels, Adrian showed that as the intensity of a sensory stimulus increases, so does a neuron's firing rate, which can peak at 200 spikes per second.

The opsin's electric signals would need to fire and shut down within milliseconds of the stimulus to communicate as quickly as neurons; Deisseroth doubted that the simple biology of algae required such speed.

«In Parkinson's, the loss of dopamine might mean that neurons that control movement don't fire as easily, which means that a few neurons have to do the whole job and can't perform as well, generating noisier output.

A computer algorithm processed the monkey's brain activity, homing in on patterns of neurons firing as it learned to do the task.

For this, electrical signals fire between neurons connected by «axons» — thread - like extensions of their outer surfaces which can be viewed as the «wire» in the electric circuit.

Using the firing patterns of just five of any patient's neurons, the system identified the person as a responder or nonresponder with 92 percent accuracy.

Besides celebrities, famous buildings, such as the Sydney Opera House and the Tower of Pisa, elicited single - neuron firing.

They found that triggering neurons in one part of the hippocampus — a sliver of brain tissue key to memory — can make linked, distant neurons more likely to fire for many hours afterward, a phenomenon now known as long - term potentiation (LTP).

During sleep, the thinking goes, neurons in the hippocampus fire, driving a transfer of its information to the neocortex, the top layer of the cerebrum that serves as the brain's hard disk, or permanent storage bin.

Tools developed via the Brain Activity Map may monitor vast ensembles of neurons as they fire — bringing static maps of neural circuits to life (shown above).

First, the bottom layer of the network receives raw data representing pixelated images or multitonal sounds, and like retinal cells, neurons fire if they detect contrasts in their patch of the data, such as a switch from light to dark.

Multitasking brain cells, known as mirror neurons, fire each time you prepare to make a move, like picking up and opening a can of soda.

As the firing of pairs of virtual neurons is repeatedly compared with background firing statistics, meaningful relationships between neurons are gradually established and reinforced.

«Spikes» or «firing,» as they are also known, are neurons» response to stimulation; they relay messages to the rest of the body.

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

(Since then, other navigation - related neurons have been discovered, including those that fire when the head turns in a particular direction, or when a border, such as the long edge of a cage, is in view.)

The sets of neurons that control movement of the tongue, lips and vocal cords fired in different combinations as the volunteers pronounced each sound.

After isolating sensory neurons from frogs and eels, Adrian showed that as the intensity of a sensory stimulus increases, so does a neuron's firing rate, which can peak as high as 200 spikes per second.

The gamers showed changes in the rhythmic firing of neurons in the part of the brain known as midline frontal theta.

Other neurons in the culture began to fire one by one as they received an electrical signal from one of their neighbors.

By making neurons fire ahead of the cortical spreading depression, as if setting off a prescribed burn in the path of a forest fire, they found they could stop the wave of neurons from spreading, and thereby prevent seizures.

But perhaps more intriguingly, the researchers showed that including excitatory neurons — neurons that stimulate, rather than inhibit, other neurons» firing — as well as inhibitory neurons among the auxiliary neurons can not improve the efficiency of the circuit.

If - adaptation is strong, such that the neuron adapts out the increased baseline intensity of the stimulus, then the firing rate should exceed about as often in the noisy conditions as in the clean condition.

Expression of mutant Htt appeared to alter the firing rate of STN neurons, as firing rates in HET and HOM mice were lower than their WT littermate.

Three different activity measures were used to quantify the magnitude of the saccade - related bursts of SC neurons for movements towards the center of their movement field as a function of their rostral - to - caudal location in the SC motor map: A) number of spikes in the burst, B) mean firing rate and C) peak spike density.

Through a small window, the miniscope captures fluorescent light emitted by thousands of neurons as they fire, and a thin wire carries data from the device's lens to a computer for analysis.

We demonstrate this intuition by applying three different information - based measures of stimulus encoding to experimental characterizations of sensory neurons, and demonstrate a transition from «high - slope» to «peak - firing - rate» encoding as neuronal variability increases, both for single neurons and in the context of a small population.

The standard tool in performing this characterization is the neuronal tuning curve: a plot of the average firing rate of the neuron as a function of relevant stimulus parameters.

The hardest challenge of all in Kennedy's project has been to interpret the noisy firings of Ramsey's neurons as intelligible speech.

The motor neurons of your central nervous system (CNS) learn to work together and fire off in a more synched manner so that all of your muscles are working together as one.