Sentences with phrase «brain signals into»

Soon a permanently embedded grid of electrodes will identify those patterns and simultaneously send them to an external processer that will convert the brain signals into synthesized words.

Not exact matches

It helps signals move faster around the neural network, and in two important areas of the brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.

The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

My understanding is that they inject a small amount of water into four points in the lower back that block the pain signals to the brain.

In the direct reprogramming, the researchers exposed the adult skin cells to a specific mix of signaling molecules the scientists» past research had found would convert healthy skin cells directly into a type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, without intermediate steps along the way.

People with this mutation can not turn soundwaves into signals that the brain can interpret, and so are deaf.

Another gene, PCDH15, plays a role in the hair cells» ability to convert sound into brain signals (Molecular Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1038 / MP.2014.8).

The gaps help to regulate signaling in the brain, and the bridges are the «connection across a synapse [that] is the release key that fits into a very specific lock to initiate the next step.»

«This work has provided new insight into how the brain decodes signals from the outside world and then translates these environmental cues into behavior.

The retina is the part of the eye that converts optical images into nerve signals, which are then transmitted to the brain where vision is interpreted.

Mapping the path of the tentacle nerves showed that they feed into an area of the brain that processes sensory signals, close to where it responds strongly to visual signals.

It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images.

Your brain has to be creative about how it integrates the signals coming into it.

Recent research has shown that the cascade of signals in the proinflammatory immune response tend to cause the amino acid tryptophan to break down into kynurenic acid rather than serotonin, a brain chemical that influences mood.

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.

Once such mutation prevents the production of an enzyme needed to break down retinol, a form of vitamin A, into a substance that photoreceptors need to detect light and send signals to the brain.

The change is translated into an electrochemical signal that is picked up by nerve cells, which relay it to the brain.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

Then, instead of sending neural signals from the animal's brain to a robot, he shunts them back into the muscles of the paralyzed arm, thereby bypassing the spinal cord.

A mind - reading device that taps into a driver's brain can recognise and act on the brain signals to stop the car precious milliseconds before the signals become leg movements.

Researchers implanted a silicon chip into Hutchinson's brain, offering a high definition view of her neurons» electrical signals.

SIGNAL SEARCHER Physicist Yasser Roudi is gleaning new insights into how the brain processes information.

Dr Milos Petrovic, co-author of the study and Reader in Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire added: «Untangling the interactions between the signal receptors in the brain not only tells us more about the inner workings of a healthy brain, but also provides a practical insight into what happens when we form new memories.

It is a product of all five senses (hearing included) interacting in unexpected ways, those sensory signals subject to gross revision as they are integrated by the brain into one complex, sometimes wonderful perception.

Incoming sound waves make the eardrum vibrate, and the eardrum delivers these vibrations using the ossicles to the inner ear where hair cells translate them into electric signals sent to the brain.

The array, called BrainGate, reads a pattern of brain signals and then sends them via wires to an external computer that translates it into a command.

The question that carried him from vision research to autism had to do with what happens after light hits the human retina: How are the incoming signals transformed into data that are ultimately processed as images in the brain?

The intricate layers of neurons at the backs of their eyes gradually degrade and lose the ability to snatch photons and translate them into electric signals that are sent to the brain.

They chose TMC1 because it is a common cause of genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases, and encodes a protein that plays a central role in hearing, helping convert sound into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

Every time their brain signals settled into the slow - wave pattern characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep, the researchers sent a series of beeps through the headphones, gradually getting louder, until the participants» slow - wave patterns dissipated and they entered shallower sleep.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain.

TMS uses a magnetic coil placed on the head to increase electrical signaling a few centimeters into the brain.

«This gives us quite an exciting springboard to fully map out this decision - making circuit from all the sensory inputs leading into the brain and how the brain parses and compares these signals, and comes to a decision,» states Schinaman.

These neurons, described in today's issue of Nature, appear to be first in line to process incoming visual signals into a spatial map, suggesting that one of the brain's first steps toward making sense of the outside world is to compensate for the body's own motion.

After being inserted into the brain's motor cortex, the device can sense where the strongest signal is coming from, and move the electrodes towards it.

This image of a chick's retina reveals the three basic stages of visual processing by the circuit in the eye that detects light and transforms it into signals the brain can understand.

«Our study is the first to measure these signals in an important cell type in the brain, providing important new insights into early sensory development in mammals.»

The researchers suggest that the reverse signalling etches information into the brains of the rats as part of the learning process.

At the same time, GRP neurons are not the only group of spinal cord neurons that receive and forward pain signals toward the brain, and the brain itself plays a central role in translating signals from peripheral neurons into experienced sensation.

In other words, what are the genes that are sending the signal to these lung BMICs to leave the lung tumour, go into the blood stream, invade the blood - brain barrier and form a tumour in the brain.»

The research team discovered leptin and insulin interact with proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the brain's hypothalamus, causing them to send signals through the nervous system promoting the conversion of white fat into brown fat.

Neurons do more than just relay signals forward into the brain.

When Schlee compared people who suffer a lot of distress from tinnitus with those who are not much bothered by it, he found that the more distress people felt, the stronger the flow of signals out of the front and back of the brain and into the temporal cortex.

Along with the fibers, they translate our physical interactions with the world into electrical signals that our brain can process.

Studies of barn owls offer insight into just how the brain combines acoustic signals from two sides of the head into a single spatial perception

The thin walls of the microvessels mean that the oxygen levels in adjacent brain tissue are mirrored within the capillaries, which can signal to red blood cells to spring into action.

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.

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

Their findings may turn out to be important when it comes to research into cerebral cancer, since it is known that components of the Hippo signaling pathway, such as neurofibromin 2, are involved in the generation of brain tumors.

Rather, it correlated with how well the device read brain signals and converted them into hand movements.