Sentences with phrase «at neural signals»

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At that point, there is often still enough surviving spinal cord tissue to allow for a sort of neural workaround, a rerouting of signals to maintain the flow of sensory and motor signals below the wound.

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.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

At Princeton, neurobiologist Lisa Boulanger — one of Shatz's former postdocs, who now has her own lab — began investigating whether changes in MHCI levels could cause neural signaling problems mimicking autism in mice.

He heard the phonemes blare from computer speakers and, at the same time, could see his neural signals directing a cursor to the symbol for the sound (like «ooh» or?

But Kennedy collaborator Frank Guenther, associate professor of cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, and his colleague Jonathan Brumberg recently worked out a system that translates neural signals from Ramsey's implant into vocal form via a synthesiser that produces the corresponding sound.

«We will look at how a code of neural signals is sent to the brain, to see if it is in fact faster than with other animals and whether it has other advantages,» says Marshall.

Neuromodulation — adjusting the electrochemical signals at the neural level — offers a potential solution.

In a major breakthrough, a team led by researchers at the Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School have identified an important neural mechanism in the spinal cord that appears to be capable of sending erroneous pain signals to the brain.

DSI can also tease apart the confusing jumble of connections that appear at neural crossroads; such images are crucial for unraveling how signals travel through the brain.

Moser's approach — risky at the time, he says — merged psychology with physiology, investigating synaptic plasticity by recording neural signals from intact mammalian brains.

Few reliable tools exist for detecting neural signals of awareness in people who appear unresponsive, says Lorina Naci, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and lead author of the new study.

NESD is aimed at developing an implantable neural interface that can provide unprecedented signal resolution and data - transfer bandwidth between the brain and the digital world.

Laughlin and David Attwell at University College London estimate that neural signaling accounts for 80 percent of the brain's energy use, whereas keeping those neurons charged and ready to fire takes only 15 percent.

«Almost nothing is known» about the molecular and cellular mechanism by which water is detected in the mouth and throat, and the neural pathway by which that signal is transmitted to the brain, says Zachary Knight, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco.

It demonstrated a meta - language prediction capability from neural signals across people, languages and bilingual status,» said Ying Yang, a postdoctoral associate in psychology at CMU and first author of the study.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

In the new study, Qu discovered that adding the signaling molecules at Day 3 worked much better: The neural progenitor cells quickly and efficiently differentiated into motor neurons.

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a small smart chip that can be paired with neural implants for efficient wireless transmission of brain signals.

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.

Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that could open the door to recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...

We expected that Acks signals detected at 0 min (in bee ball formation experiment) or in control bees (in heat - exposure and IAA - exposure experiments) would reflect background level neural activity and the neural activity in the workers forming a bee ball, heat - exposed or IAA - exposed workers could be considerably increased.

Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 induced by Wnt signaling increases the proliferation and migration of embryonic neural stem cells at low O2 levels.

Dec. 12, 2017 - Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that could open the door to recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...

During repeated trials at small set sizes where working memory is active, brain signals associated with RPE started out high in the first few trials, and then quickly dropped off — a sign that cognitive processes are informing the neural signaling associated with reinforcement learning.

Scientists have discovered the point at which incoming sensory information begins to transform into a neural signal that instructs a fly's response...

This could be because the main way in which the central nervous system signals the muscle to contract at a faster velocity is through a higher level of rate coding (Pasquet et al. 2006), while the main mechanism for increasing neural drive in response to a different muscle length is a reduced motor unit recruitment threshold (Pasquet et al. 2005).

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

A new method developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden makes it possible to recode neural signals into a format that computer processors can use instantly.