Sentences with phrase «electrical response»

Looking at an image produces a host of faster electrical responses, which are thought to relate to the processing of the image that occurs prior to conscious recognition.

Evidence is showing that music has the power to increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, promoting creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by inducing a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.

The tests used in these cases, which measure electrical responses to sounds in the brain, give only a crude measure of hearing ability: they miss children with moderate impairment, said Lonsbury - Martin.

Although plants (thankfully) don't have a nervous system, they respond to their environment with a similar mix of chemical and electrical responses as do animals.

Music has the power to increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, endorsing creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by bringing mind to a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.

Using olfactory tissue from knockout and control mice, the researchers recorded electrical responses to 15 different odors.

By moving individual atoms under their microscope, the scientists were able to create atomic lattices with a predetermined electrical response.

«We found that these clusters can perform very well as room - temperature nanoscale diodes whose electrical response we can tailor by changing their chemical composition,» says Venkataraman.

With these molecular clusters, we have complete control over their structure with atomic precision and can change the elemental composition and structure in a controllable manner to elicit certain electrical response.»

When viewing black - and - white checkerboard images, people with depression showed markedly reduced electrical responses.

Previously, the researchers had found that heavy alcohol users showed a greater electrical response in the cortex of the brain than non-alcohol users, which indicates that there had been long - term changes to how the brain responds.

The post-synaptic density is a specialized area full of proteins needed for communication between neurons, so changes in its structure or capacity may explain the aberrant electrical responses.

This accounted for the anomalous electrical response and revealed the usefulness of such measurements for monitoring mineralogical and geochemical changes accompanying subsurface bioremediation.

If, on the other hand, the ERG yields normal electrical responses for both eyes, then the loss of vision is considered central; i.e., bilateral optic neuritis, an optic chiasmal lesion at the base of the brain, or an optic tract and / or visual occipital cortex based problem.

«We've shown show that this photo - induced doping arises from microscopically coupled optical and electrical responses in the GBN heterostructures, including optical excitation of defect transitions in boron nitride, electrical transport in graphene, and charge transfer between boron nitride and graphene,» Wang says.

A small study conducted at Northwestern University found that a hearing test, by measuring the brain's electrical response to speech sounds, could identify concussions in children.

The researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope technique that they have pioneered to make junctions comprising a single cluster connected to the two gold electrodes, which enabled them to characterize its electrical response as they varied the applied bias voltage.

The researchers tailored the clusters to explore the impact of compositional change on the clusters» electrical response and plan to build upon their initial study.

In order to create the chip, Berger bombarded live rat hippocampal neurons with electric impulses and recorded the electrical responses from the cells, collecting the «vocabulary» of the tissue.

Using a technique called gas chromatography, Schiestl and colleagues in Sweden and Germany separated the components of the female bee extract that sexually arouses males, then measured the electrical response of male antennae to each compound to determine which ones are active.

First author and graduate student Dhruv Zocchi measured the electrical responses from taste nerves in mice to various tastants as well as to water.

In their study, Mazzolini and co-workers found that depending on the region of the cell being hit by the light, the electrical response of the nerve changes.

Responses from the Ggamma13 knockout mice were greatly reduced, suggesting that the olfactory receptors of these mice were unable to translate odor signals into an electrical response.

While fabricating synthetic woods in a petri dish, a team led by Caltech's Chiara Daraio created a material that exhibited an electrical response to temperature changes in the lab.

Scientists can perturb the brain with a magnet and analyze its electrical response to measure consciousness.

With this additional arrangement the wire is predicted to host a Majorana quasiparticle, and experimenters can look for its presence by carefully measuring the wire's electrical response.

The electrical response was dependent upon the predominant metabolic processes active in the subsurface at a given point in time.

The sensor converts mechanical pressure into an electrical response that, once processed, correlates to a certain grade of roughness

Utilizes an Intoximeters electrochemical fuel cell sensor which generates an electrical response that is proportional to the Breath Alcohol Concentration in the provided, fixed volume sample.

The iPhone's touchscreen responds to the electrical response from a user's fingertips, according to AppleInsider, which makes typing with gloves on a futile effort.