Sentences with phrase «electrical signals travel»

Millions of electrical signals travel throughout the brain, carrying information from cell to cell and region to region.

«The protein travels by diffusion through the cells like electrical signals travel through the brain,» Zeng says.

Once a specific threshold is reached, an electrical signal travels down the axon — the nerve fibers within the neuron — and the neuron fires.

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The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

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.

They chose TMC1 because it is a common cause of genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases, and encodes a protein that plays a central role in hearing, helping convert sound into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

The system takes electrical signals from the participant's brain, which then travel down to electrodes placed around his knees to create movement.

Many touch screens are made of layered thin (billionths of a meter thick) films of indium - tin oxide, an inorganic material that is electrically conductive, which allows electrical signals to travel from the «touch» to the edges of the display, where they are sensed by the device — as well as optically transparent.

When the antenna sends out a signal, information travels in the reverse direction, from electrical voltage to vibrations to EM waves.

The retina sits at the back of the human eye, and contains protein cells that convert light into electrical signals that travel through the nervous system, triggering a response from the brain, ultimately building a picture of the scene being viewed.

These electrical pulses travel along specialized extensions called axons to cause the release of chemical signals elsewhere in the brain.

Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only — or even the main — way that information is carried in nervous systems.

Manufacturing advances would allow the chip's transistors to shrink and shrink, so electrical signals would have to travel less distance to process information.

They found that, in these hearts, the electrical signal that tells when the heart to beat travelled around the heart more slowly than usual.

In general, a neuron spikes, meaning it it sends an electrical signal that travels down a nerve fiber, when cued by a sensory element.

Yet its rate remains fairly regular, thanks to electrical signals that travel as waves from cell to cell through the heart.

Before you curl a dumbbell an electrical signal starts in your brain and travels down your spinal cord to the lower cervical region where it activates a different nerve that goes out to your biceps.