Sentences with phrase «by electrodes touching»
Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.
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By attaching a series of electrodes to the conductive materials, researchers showed they could use a well - known technique called electric field tomography to sense the position of a finger touch.
They found that the output from the screen's array of crisscrossed touch - sensing electrodes could distinguish between the capacitances caused by each concentration using droplets of only 10 microlitres (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, DOI: 10.1002 / anie201105986).
In a new study by Flesher et al., microelectrode arrays were implanted into the primary somatosensory cortex of a person with spinal cord injury and, by delivering current through the electrodes, generated sensations of touch that were perceived as coming from his own paralyzed hand.
By implanting electrodes into the somatosensory cortex — the brain region that registers touch — Brecht and his team have identified the neurons that activate physical responses to tickling (Science, doi.org/bsxv).
By electrically stimulating the surface of the brain through electrocorticography (ECoG) electrodes, we can provide touch feedback to our research participants.