Sentences with phrase «as neural signaling»

As the neural signals shift and drift, the performance of the BCI — the ability of users to move a cursor or robot by thinking about the move — will decline until the decoder can be recalibrated.

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The short - term dependence on the proximity of a caregiver for physiological regulation, and protection is just finally being recognized scientifically as being extremely important and beneficial (see Barak et al. 2011 Should Neonates Sleep Alone, downloadable from this website) Mosko et al., 1998; McKenna et al 2007), and helps to explain why infants should avoid sleeping alone outside the sensory range by which a caregiver and infant detect each others sensory signals, cues, or stimuli, all of which facilitate and represent interactions that augment neurological connections and provide the foundation for the development of cognition and intellectual development, and the proliferation of neural networks that support these systems.

As the baby suckles at the breast neural signals are sent to the hypothalamus which mediates the level and rhythm of secretion of the GnRH hormone.

The model is able to learn, due to synaptic plasticity, to control the signals that open and close the neural gates, so as to control the flow of information among different areas.

«The results are novel, as this sensitive and comprehensive testing has revealed how prenatal and early postnatal immune activation may regulate core behavioral signs associated with ASD and certain other developmental disorders through changes in signal flow between different structural components of behavior - driving neural circuits,» said Bolshakov.

Neural gating mechanisms are based on the properties of certain neurons (called bistable neurons) to behave as switches that can be turned «on» or «off» by a control signal coming from other neurons.

As Collins noted, the signals that turn circuits on and off are general features of many neural circuits.

In a recent test using a cat as a test subject, Rogers» team showed that the sensors, connected to computers via a thin cable, could identify specific neural signals that portend a seizure.

The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall robot was much larger than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as easily as a life - size mechanical arm.

As she moved the joystick, her neural signals were picked up by the wires and sent to a computer in the next room.

As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neuronAs well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neuronas offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

The researchers found that Rh7 could functionally substitute for Rh1 in flies missing Rh1, as measured by electroretinogram, which is an extracellular recording of a neural signal in the fly eye in response to light.

That feat will require decoding the complex neural signals that coordinate two legs as they walk together and keep a person upright.

The group employed various viral tracing methods — infecting receptor - expressing neurons with a virus strain and watching them spread as they label infected cells with a fluorescent protein — to visualize the neural circuit downstream of the ESP1 receptor, as well as providing an image of nerve fibers belonging to specific neurons in the brain and synapses relaying impulses from neuron to neuron, to map the anatomical foundation that conveys ESP1 signals in the brain.

In contrast, the Stanford team's neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent signals to one another in coordinated patterns — just as they would in a brain.

When a particular molecule happens to fall into a matching receptor, a neural signal is triggered that is transmitted to the brain as an odor.

«Our results with Drosophila exhibit surprising similarities in some respects to what we know about the regulation of resting phases in mammals, allowing for speculation as to whether the Hippo signaling pathway in neural stem cells functions in the same manner in both vertebrates and invertebrates,» stated the paper's first author Rouven Ding.

As he sat in the gloomy lab, watching neural signals dance in green light across an oscilloscope, he noticed something strange.

«Taming neural excitations: Pulses might one day lead to controlling harmful signals such as those in strokes.»

The findings suggest that even the simplest of choices, such as turning left or right, are the result of multiple neural signals triggered by recently encountered cues, which then propagate in a complex yet well - organized manner and converge in a single decision.

A theoretical study of short - and long - range effects on neural excitation pulses might one day lead to controlling harmful signals such as those in strokes.

Schwann cells form a protective myelin sheath around nerves, which acts as insulation to ensure rapid transmission of neural signals to limbs and other parts of the body.

To understand this evocative force, researchers in many fields, including information science, neural perception, and signal processing, investigate music's underlying structure, examining features such as the tone, timbre, and auditory and rhythmic features of a piece.

As for those patients whose brains are trapped in inanimate bodies, implants that pick up electrical impulses can already translate neural signals to control a cursor, move a wheelchair, or say hello, although they are not now suitable for people with severe brain injuries.

Located deep inside the brain the thalamus acts as a relay station sending neural signals from the body to the cortex.

Therefore, we considered that the Acks signals detected at each sampling time mainly reflect neural activity involved in the following phases of the bee ball formation; 0 min: normal phase before presentation of the hornet; 30 min: early phase of bee ball formation, such as the recognition of the hornet and / or formation of the bee ball; 60 min: late phase of the bee ball formation, such as the maintenance of the bee ball.

Thus, we concluded that Acks could be utilized as a marker of neural activity that occurred 30 to 60 min before in the brains of Japanese honeybees, although we could not detect the spotted signal in the antennal lobes (ALs, primary olfactory center), suggesting that Acks, like kakusei, is not useful for detecting neural activity in the ALs (data not shown).

The signals can be localized in the brain and translated into digital images that portray neural activity level as a ratio of oxygenated to de-oxygenated hemoglobin, the iron - containing pigment in red blood cells.

Professor Bargmann then embarked upon what was to become a lifetime mission to define how genes and the environment influence behavior by dissecting the neural circuitry of C. elegans and the genes, receptors, and signaling molecules involved in such behavior as feeding and responses to odors.

These scientists are working on processes such as decoding neural signals, developing new ways to use neural signals in assistive technology, and mining neural data for more accurate predictors of psychiatric illnesses.

Journal coverage includes basic signaling interests (e.g. neurotransmitters, ions and ion channels, receptors and messenger molecules, and kinases / phosphatases), as well as electrical signaling, signaling in neural circuits, neuroimaging, signaling aspects of pathologies, synaptic transmission and plasticity, and therapeutic intervention.

The scientific community has learned a great deal about molecular signals that can support regeneration of damaged neural connections, but there is an urgent need to identify as many pro-regenerative signals as possible because it is not clear which of these might actually translate to use in patients.

Acquiring clearer, more robust data signals through neural probes is important for development of the CSNE's bi-directional brain - computer interface, which is envisioned to act as a neural bridge between the brain, spinal cord and injured areas of the body.

The vasculature can influence neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation by providing a local source of signaling molecules secreted from endothelial cells (1) as well as by delivering systemic regulatory factors (2).

The nerve actually sends signals to the brain, and the brain releases neural hormones such as beta - Endorphins.

They're helpful short circuits in our neural system, sending signals to the spinal cord, whence action signals are relayed back in what's known as the reflex arc, bypassing the time - consuming trek up to the brain and back down again.

Foremost is DARPA's desire to develop «high resolution» neural implants that record signals from as many as one million neurons at once.

Huawei's AI chip is expected to ensure faster performance of its new smartphones by serving as the neural processing unit of the handsets, thereby replacing all sorts of chips for conventional computing, graphics and other digital signal processing.

The present investigation examined the hypothesis that an attachment figure may act as a safety signal during a threatening experience, relying on neural regions known to be involved in signaling safety and reducing distress or threat.

Because facial signals of aggression are more likely to be interpreted as potentially dangerous by highly anxious individuals (Dimberg and Ohman, 1996), we also investigated neural modulation related to BIS.