Sentences with phrase «brain signals»

This shows that the gut bacteria which thrive during a high fat diet are playing a role in the damaging effects of the diet on brain signals.

Following hours of practice, a computer learned to identify brain signals associated with different wrist and finger movements.

This allows researchers to record brain signals at higher frequencies and with less interference than measurements from the scalp.

The findings give insight into how brain signals are disrupted by the disease and offer a potential new treatment target.

In the last decade, researchers have become increasingly skilled at detecting and interpreting brain signals.

In order to achieve better brain signal transmission quality, the researchers apply contact gel.

This device allows the activation of any environmental instrument through specific electrical brain signals selected at will.

Similarly, when you need energy, your stomach and brain signal hunger.

When a significant decrease in certain brain signals indicated that the student's attention level had fallen, the system sent a signal to the robot to trigger a cue.

However, smoking nicotine but believing it was a placebo did not produce the same brain signals.

A self - learning algorithm defined important characteristics within the complex brain signals, enabling the researchers to predict how well a given participant would carry out the movement.

Andy Coghlan's report of brain signals from monkeys being used to recreate photos of faces is potentially important for many reasons (10 June, p 14).

Andy Coghlan's report of brain signals from monkeys being used to recreate photos of faces is potentially important for many...

In their research in mice, described in the journal Nature online Oct. 21, the investigators showed that TRN neurons, which have been previously implicated in the dampening of brain signals in people, were also less active when the mice were led to focus on — and respond to — a visual flash of light to get a milk reward.

Various groups are working on developing wheelchairs, robots and computers that can be controlled by brain signals alone.

The device uses brain signals generated in the motor cortex to control a computer mouse directly, allowing him to communicate.

This wireless — fully wearable — neuroprosthetic interface essentially decodes brain signals about walking and stimulates the spinal cord to contract the correct group of leg muscles to enact the intended walking movements — without any therapeutic training.

The trick is to teach the user how to associate particular brain signals with specific tasks by presenting a repeating stimulus — auditory, visual or tactile — and getting the user to focus on it.

Low levels of the enzyme have been linked to high levels of brain signalling chemicals in the fetus, including serotonin, which might affect developing brain circuits.

Other scientists have connected the brains of rats and monkeys, and transmitted brain signals from a human to a rat, using electrodes inserted into animals» brains.

You have found a way to help paralyzed people by converting brain signals into computer code to maneuver a robotic arm.

«Mind - controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands: Device reads brain signals, converts them into motion.»

Glutamate and glycine activate the receptor, which is an important mediator of brain signaling for processes such as learning and memory.

«The analysis revealed important similarities between brain signals of different people during movie viewing.

These questions were put to the test by a group of University of Miami psychologists who studied hundreds of fMRI brain scans, from two separate datasets, to see how the variability of brain signals changes or remains the same during a human lifespan.

The arrays record brain signals created when Kochevar imagines movement of his own arm and hand.

In the 2013 experiment, the UW team used noninvasive technology to send a person's brain signals over the Internet to control the hand motions of another person.

Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown.

ABM also provided proprietary software that processed brain signals collected by the EEG cap, as well as offered guidance and advice to the students.

This suggests that interferon gamma normally dampens brain signals in this region — and that it affects social behavior.

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.

The implanted organoids were also sending axons — the biological wires that carry brain signals from one neuron to another — into both sides of the mouse brain, not only the side with the window, and forming such strong synapses with mouse neurons that the neural activity of the two species was synchronized.

Wadsworth Brain - Computer Interface (USA) The Wadsworth BCI enables totally paralyzed people to communicate and control their environment with brain signals alone.

With neurofeedback, individuals can gradually begin to control their own brain signals, thus reducing their state of depression or anxiety.»

The success of this experiment was due in part to a computer capable of rapidly interpreting brain signals based on the monkeys» desire to move their limbs.

On a 5 - year horizon, and beyond ADHD, we intend to leverage our proprietary, real - time brain signal processing, and know - how in neurosciences to develop or co-develop additional game - changing medical devices in pathologies such as chronic pain, the cognitive impairment of seniors or motor function rehabilitation.

The basic technology that Nicolelis and colleagues used to extract instructions for movement from the mishmash of monkey brain signals isn't new, says Jose Contreras - Vidal, a biomedical engineer at the University of Houston in Texas.

The colors in this image trace this kaleidoscopic crisscrossing and show the directions, in three dimensions, in which brain signals travel.

It is easy to say you will translate brain signals into electrical stimulation — but to translate something you need to know what it means in the first place, and that's a hard problem.

But people paralysed from the neck down can not benefit from this technique as brain signals can not reach the chest.

The recent discovery, by a Rockefeller University - led team, of a molecular amplification system helps explain how the drugs alter brain signaling in particular neurons, and so produce an antidepressant effect.

Also unknown is the association between brain signal variability and cognitive performance on various tasks such as memory, reasoning, speed, vocabulary, and semantic knowledge.

For example, Burkhart uses different brain signals and muscles to rotate his hand, make a fist or pinch his fingers together to grasp an object, Mysiw said.

In addition, because many of the deadlier spider venoms produce their toxic effects by overstimulating the production of brain signaling molecules, this research may uncover novel tools for neuroscience research.

We detected brain signals showing that patients were trying to walk and could send these signals to exoskeletons that then do the mechanical work for them, which allow the patient to move.

As the Prius gets up to speed, the car's computer brain signals the gasoline engine to switch on, at which point the electric motor surrenders control in a seamless operation that is virtually undetectable.

For instance, the inferior parietal lobule (IPL), which receives brain signals associated with attempts to determine identity, direction and meaning, is housed more on the left side of the brain in men.

«Key mechanism behind some deafness identified: Study identifies a new protein that is essential to the process of turning sound waves into meaningful brain signals.»

We're taking inaudible brain signals and making them audible through sonification.