Sentences with phrase «electric signals in your brain»

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

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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.

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

In the brains of all vertebrates, information is transmitted through synapses, a mechanism that allows an electric or chemical signal to be passed from one brain cell to another.

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.

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).

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 memorIn 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 memorin those synaptic spaces, sometimes in ways that scientists believe aid and abet learning and memorin ways that scientists believe aid and abet learning and memory.

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.