Sentences with phrase «electrical circuit in his brain»

To translate, would mean engaging an electrical circuit in his brain, bypassing his heart.

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Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

Croft believes the heightened alpha waves reflect the mind concentrating to overcome the electrical interference in brain circuits caused by the pulsed microwave radiation from cell phones.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception, action, thought, learning and memories.

These findings, which will be published online Aug. 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help identify important brain circuits involved in stroke recovery and usher in new clinical therapies for stroke, including the placement of electrical brain - stimulating devices similar to those used for treating Parkinson's disease, chronic pain and epilepsy.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

In essence, this would be a detailed, real - time motion picture of the circuits of the brain at work, built up from imagery of the electrical charges between neurons.

This hyper - synchronization results in a surge of electrical activity that causes the brain to malfunction, like a computer with a short circuit.

«In all these cases, a molecular description of a cell that is integrated with [its] electrical and circuit properties... has remained elusive,» says Boyden, who is a member of MIT's Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Prior to the study, scientists had observed synchronous patterns of electrical activity between the two circuit hubs after a monkey saw an object, but weren't sure if the signals actually represent such short - term visual memories in the brain.

Once the generator is programmed, it delivers continual electrical pulses that alter the activity in specific brain «circuits.»

Eyes, noses, and light - emitting diodes proliferate, while plants, electrical circuits, and brains merge in cages, cubes, boxes, and aquariums.