Sentences with phrase «electric signals»

Your life, your soul, is electric signals in your brain, and when they stop, you are gone.

The electronic fingers mold to the shape of the hand, and so far the researchers have shown that they can transmit electric signals to the skin.

New shift - by - wire technology uses electric signals to transmit shift operations.

Little electric signals are sent to your muscles, telling them to contract.

This is often attributed to scent sensitivity or to electric signal detection.

He uses animal models to study the anatomy and electric signals in the brain.

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.

To do so, the researchers asked their volunteer to attempt to perform certain movements with his missing leg — for instance, flexing the foot — while they monitored the pattern of electric signals from the rerouted nerves in the thigh muscles.

Gallium arsenide is a semiconductor material widely used in infrared remote controls, high - frequency technology for mobile phones, conversion of electric signals into light in glass - fiber cables, and solar cells for space technology.

The structure converts electric signals into light.

Previous work by the researchers on piezoelectric textiles has so far mainly focused on sensors and their ability to generate electric signals through pressure sensitivity.

The model is based on the connections between nerve cells in the human body in which electric signals from synapses are directed from cellular protuberances to the cell's core and back again.

The research group of Professor Jairo Sinova at the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in collaboration with researchers from Prague, Cambridge, and Nottingham, have predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate the state of a magnet by electric signals.

The vibrations cause nerve hairs in the inner ear to shiver, and that triggers electric signals that travel along the auditory nerve into the brain.

Neurons in the brain create electric signals.

Right now they're «test driving» moths on a custom - built platform: The insect is levitated with an electromagnet, which holds it in place as it flaps its wings and allows electric signals from a wire to make it orient itself left or right.

It was a bizarre discovery, since the ganglion layer was thought only to relay electric signals from the rods and cones, not catch its own light.

Such studies could have important medical implications: Faulty electric signaling contributes to heart arrhythmias and may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, too.

Supposedly your brain's electric signals alter in frequency to match this beat, and altered signals mean altered consciousness.

All neurons have certain characteristic attributes: axons, synapses, and the ability to produce electric signals.

Inside this chamber, delicate hair cells relay the sound to the auditory nerve, which carries electric signals to the brain, where they are interpreted as a familiar voice, an expressive instrumental melody, or the jarring beep that starts my day.

The amputees in the study had previously undergone surgery to rewire the nerves in their upper bodies to act as messengers for the specific electric signals associated with arm and hand movement.

I am sitting in a darkened, closet - size lab at Tufts University, my scalp covered by a blue cloth cap studded with electrodes that detect electric signals from my brain.

As the neurons grow on each side, they sprout long branches, called axons, which creep down the grooves to make contact with neurons growing on the other side in order to transmit electric signals between them.

Both mice and humans with a silenced FMR1 gene have malformed neurons: Spines on their dendrites are longer, thinner, and more numerous than normal, and they also transmit weaker electric signals.

To overcome this so - called von Neumann bottleneck, it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.

In the tiny brain space where two nerve cells meet, chemical and electric signals shuttle back and forth, a messaging system that ebbs and flows in those synaptic spaces, sometimes in ways that scientists believe aid and abet learning and memory.

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), which can sometimes be found at health clubs and involves attaching electrodes to the hands and feet or standing on electrode pads, sends a small electric signal through the body to compute the composition of body fat and muscle mass.

Pulsed Signal Therapy or PST uses a series of controlled electric pulses to painlessly mimic pets» natural electric signals to stimulate their body's innate regenerative response.

Composed of four moving image channels and eight channels of electric signals in synchronization, the exhibition will be populated by videos made by the artist during a two month residency in the region.

Crucially, this new qubit can be controlled using electric signals, instead of magnetic ones.

By the integration of smallest carbon nanotubes into a nanostructured waveguide, they have developed a compact miniaturized switching element that converts electric signals into clearly defined optical signals.

Described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the 2 - millimeter - wide device uses piezoelectric materials, which turn mechanical strain into electric signals.

Neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting electric signals, or firing action potentials, through long processes named axons (which send out signals) and dendrites (which receive signals).

The installation is a result of a residency in São Paulo, where Mirza has spent two months conducting research and capturing images and sounds to fill the device, which will play up to four videos and eight channels of electric signals in synchronization.

In response to electric signals from sensors that indicate how the doll is oriented and what she is holding — a small brown bear or a bottle — the actuators contract or expand much as muscles would, slowly moving the eyes from side to side in a highly convincing, if slightly creepy, manner.

The wrist - worn device works like an electrocardiogram, measuring the electric signals that come from its wearer's heartbeat and are as unique a signature as fingerprints.

Whenever you have a thought, one synapse shoots a chemical across the cleft to another synapse, thus building a bridge over which an electric signal can cross, carrying along its charge the relevant information you're thinking about,» Parton explains.

The N.S.A. could physically install a device that clips on the cable and listens to electric signals, or insert a splitter in the cable through which data would travel, said Nicholas McKeown, an expert in computer networking and a professor at Stanford.

I believe that when we die, all the electric signals that our body had produced coagulates into the sky with all the other electrcial energy from all other life forms.

With present techniques, teleportation is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as by radio or electric signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location.

The exact location of neural activity is far more difficult to discern via EEG than with many other, more invasive methods because the skull, scalp, and cerebral fluid surrounding the brain scatter its electric signals before they reach the electrodes.

To accomplish that, your brain had to send an electric signal down the string of neurons in your spine and to the muscles in your shoulders and elbows, telling them to contract and then let go.

The sensor contains an enzyme that reacts with the glucose and relays the indication as an electric signal.

A plastic optical fiber collects the emitted light, which is converted into an electric signal that appears as an image on a computer screen, allowing scientists to track cells without limiting the rats» mobility.

According to Tufts University biologist Michael Levin, these electric signals are «a gift from physics,» a natural property of electricity that evolution was able to exploit advantageously.

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.

A third class of glia, known as Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes, form insulating sleeves around neurons to keep their electric signals from diffusing.

Already now, the optoelectronic components developed by the researchers can be used to produce light signals in the gigahertz frequency range from electric signals.

The opsin's electric signals would need to fire and shut down within milliseconds of the stimulus to communicate as quickly as neurons; Deisseroth doubted that the simple biology of algae required such speed.