Sentences with phrase «electrical signals generated»

But then Dawkins delivers the scientific punch line: a lucid explanation of the platypus's remarkable ability, embedded in its goofy Donald Duck appendage, to detect the faintest electrical signals generated by muscular twitches of shrimp and other prey buried in the mud.

Researchers at NIST's campus in Boulder, Colo., made the custom superconducting circuits, or chips, that amplify electrical signals generated by microwave detectors measuring primordial particles of light.

Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste - like goo sealed in my skull.

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The prosthesis was made to touch various objects, which generate different patterns of electrical signals.

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When mature, these cells grow hairs that bend in response to sound, generating electrical signals.

The new device would use the same type of sensor, but the signal it generates would travel to a microchip implanted in the ear, which would convert it to an electrical signal and pass it on to an electrode in the cochlea.

Applying alternating electrical signal to the material causes the material to deform periodically and generate sound waves that grow on its surface, similar to earthquake waves that grow from the center of the earthquake.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

The neuron accumulates its incoming electrical signals from connecting neurons through several terminals, and generates a short electrical pulse, known as a spike, when its threshold is reached.

Venus flytraps no longer generate electrical signals and their traps remain open when trigger hairs were touched, and growing pea tendrils stopped their autonomous movements and were immobilized in a curled shape.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal because of an outer shield of amino acids called a turret situated above the channel's entrance.

The Colombian native said: «The synthetic material can generate electrical signals, which stimulate the neurons at the back of our eye just like the original retina.»

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

When the wearer blinks, the motion of skin to the side of the eye causes the polymer layers to touch and release, generating an electrical signal.

When the sensors come into contact with sweat they generate electrical signals that are amplified and filtered, and then calibrated using skin temperature.

In the transition to awareness, the squiggly EEG signals — electrical patterns generated by the collective activity of the neurons in the cortex — make a distinctive shift.

18 healthy volunteers were monitored by using EEG to measure the electrical activity generated by their brains» neurons (the signalling cells) while simultaneously recording fMRI measurements.

The following year, based on experiments in the giant squid axon, British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described how ion flow across the cell membrane generates the electrical spikes — called action potentials — that constitute these signals.

The heart is a muscle that depends on electrical signals from a biological «pacemaker» (located in the atria of the heart) to generate the regular and evenly spaced contractions of the chambers of the heart necessary to pump blood with its vital oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.

Some of the cells in the heart are able to generate electrical signals that cause the rhythmic beating of the heart.

The electrical signal can be used to generate light and sound simultaneously using binary processes and / or interface other electronic equipment.

No one tells bone what to do, but it generates a material in response to environmental signals», says Timothy Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering and senior author of the paper describing the team's work in Nature Materials