Sentences with phrase «how brain signals»

Stanford researchers showed us in September how brain signals could be used to type.

«[This research] lays the groundwork for potential later products to [be] engineered using that knowledge of how brain signals are changing beyond the BCI control site.»

The findings give insight into how brain signals are disrupted by the disease and offer a potential new treatment target.

To figure that out, the researchers looked how the brain signals associated with reinforcement learning changed as the learning process unfolded from trial to trial.

A second study, to be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows how these brain signals can be used to predict virality of the same news articles around the world.

Not exact matches

Rather, the headsets could help doctors understand how the brain's signals are affected by the drugs.

Our age is a major factor in how our brains read, or misread, all those signals.

The brain has to process the signal of needing to urinate, and then the child has to learn how to hold it for a few minutes.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

The trick is to teach the user how to associate particular brain signals with specific tasks by presenting a repeating stimulus — auditory, visual or tactile — and getting the user to focus on it.

As I spoke with various researchers, I realized that the disagreements signaled newly emerging views of how the brain ages.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory aBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

After attaching a small helium balloon to a moth to balance out the electronics» weight, Bozkurt and Amit Lal, his Ph.D. adviser at Cornell, discovered they really could fly the bug, as if its own brain were sending signals on how to move.

«This work has provided new insight into how the brain decodes signals from the outside world and then translates these environmental cues into behavior.

«The pathway mainly involves signalling via the brains» immune cells, and thus differs from how today's drugs operate.

In vision especially we can control inputs to the brain with exquisite precision, which makes it possible to quantitatively analyze how signals are transformed in the brain.»

Because the contributions of dopamine to the actions of cocaine are so prominent, however, laboratories have been unable to establish unequivocally how much of cocaine's actions rely on serotonin and where in the brain the serotonin signal contributes most.

Your brain has to be creative about how it integrates the signals coming into it.

House and Greger are still learning how to interpret those signals so that they can be read automatically within a brain - computer interface.

Based on the strength of fluorescence in the cubes, they generated a 3D map of how each of the 469 different signals spread through the brain's thoroughfares and quieter byroads.

Stanford University researchers studying how the brain controls movement in people with paralysis, related to their diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, have found that groups of neurons work together, firing in complex rhythms to signal muscles about when and where to move.

The finding, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by McGill researchers, highlights how learning and experience, including developmental auditory experience, can shape how the brain perceives vocal signals.

Detailed looks at how the brain uses these waves raise the possibility of tweaking the signals with electrical nudges — interventions that could lead to therapies that can correct memory problems and mental illness, for instance.

SIGNAL SEARCHER Physicist Yasser Roudi is gleaning new insights into how the brain processes information.

The researchers also wanted to see how the beneficial effects of cannabidiol may depend on changes in the molecular signaling processes that certain brain neurons use to communicate with each other.

How the brain does this is not fully understood, but physicist Yasser Roudi says one thing is clear: «It's about information processing in a very chaotic environment that's full of signals.»

«We will look at how a code of neural signals is sent to the brain, to see if it is in fact faster than with other animals and whether it has other advantages,» says Marshall.

The question that carried him from vision research to autism had to do with what happens after light hits the human retina: How are the incoming signals transformed into data that are ultimately processed as images in the brain?

Exactly how they detect problems was unclear, but researchers now show that they respond to an SOS signal from dying cells that is relayed throughout the brain.

It describes how the brain constructs a mental depiction of the surface using sensory signals from two fingers as they explore a surface over time and space.

The researchers also investigated how pheromone signals are transmitted through the olfactory circuit in the brain.

«This gives us quite an exciting springboard to fully map out this decision - making circuit from all the sensory inputs leading into the brain and how the brain parses and compares these signals, and comes to a decision,» states Schinaman.

Raman has spent a decade learning how the human brain and olfactory system operate to process scent and odor signals.

A signaling pathway is how developing cells get instruction on what types of cell to become, such as a liver cell, a skin cell, a brain cell, etc..

Dyer, who recently joined the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, also studies how the brain computes via its signaling networks, and this imaging technique could someday open new windows onto how they work.

The part of the brain that tells us the direction to travel when we navigate has been identified by UCL scientists, and the strength of its signal predicts how well people can navigate.

Understanding how it works sheds light on how dopamine signals reward in the brain.

This design, in which different inputs alter the alignment and resulting output signals, is inspired by how the brain operates.

Hence, the researchers considered it worthwhile to investigate how alterations in BDNF signalling affect memory functions and brain pathology.

Her team is conducting brain - imaging studies to try to tease out the roots of that soundtrack as well as how a typical brain combines visual and auditory signals to improve perception.

DSI can also tease apart the confusing jumble of connections that appear at neural crossroads; such images are crucial for unraveling how signals travel through the brain.

The technology is advancing to the point in which we can have a much better understanding of how the brain works comprehensively, rather than just focusing on neurons because their electrical signals make them appear brighter when imaging the brain.»

Though the brain is better understood than it was a generation ago, Vorstman says, how its intricate dance of chemical and electrical signals gives rise to mind and personality remains mysterious.

Current research addresses how disrupted endocannabinoid signaling during brain development primes for delayed neuropsychiatric illness.

With the Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to input signals from simulated senses and nervous system.

But while the areas of the brain involved in estimating spatial orientation have been identified for some time, until now, no one has been able to either show that distinct neurons signaling «sensory conflicts» existed, nor demonstrate exactly how they work.

Studies of barn owls offer insight into just how the brain combines acoustic signals from two sides of the head into a single spatial perception

That means they can watch the brain in detailed action, a step towards decoding its cryptic signals in order to understand just how our elusive brains work.

Rather, it correlated with how well the device read brain signals and converted them into hand movements.

For example, now that we've used brain signals to control an artificial arm, we can progress to experiments in which we change the properties of the arm or provide visual or tactile feedback to the animal, and explore how the brain adapts to it.»