Sentences with phrase «interpreting brain signals»

In the last decade, researchers have become increasingly skilled at detecting and interpreting brain signals.

The tiny chip interprets brain signals and sends them to a computer, which recodes and sends them to the high - definition electrode stimulation sleeve that stimulates the proper muscles to execute his desired movements.

Not exact matches

When darkness falls, your brain interprets this as a signal to start producing melatonin, a hormone that triggers relaxation, paving the way for sleep.

The brain interprets the signals from the nerves, creating the sensations of pain and itching.

People with this mutation can not turn soundwaves into signals that the brain can interpret, and so are deaf.

Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted, and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped.

The idea is that a portable device like a mobile phone or a smartwatch reads signals sent from a microchip implanted in the patient's brain, interpreting the data according to the researchers» prize - winning algorithm and warning the patient of an upcoming seizure.

The retina is the part of the eye that converts optical images into nerve signals, which are then transmitted to the brain where vision is interpreted.

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

Noisier signals arriving in higher visual areas may be harder to interpret, distracting the brain from the target and so making it more difficult to detect.

But going via the nerves in the arm has the advantage of using the brain's usual channels of input, allowing the signal to be interpreted more naturally.

In other words, the brain extracts the stereo signal from the patches as a whole — interpreting the individual chunks as blobs — yet those patches themselves are seen to rival.

The eye and brain work in a partnership to interpret conflicting signals from the outside world.

Making artificial whiskers that interpret delicate movements, called vibrissal sensing, has only become possible in the last 15 years, following advances in understanding the brain's neural processing of vibrissal signals.

If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.»

Scientists are finding out and discovering how the brain interprets these signals as various tastes

«In this study, a new «source analysis» method was used for the first time to measure functional networks in the infant brain: with the help of a computer model, the measured EEG signals were interpreted as activity in the infant cortex, which enabled the evaluation of the functional networking of neurons in a very versatile manner on the cortical level,» says Sampsa Vanhatalo, a professor in clinical neurophysiology and the head of the study.

Chapin studies the part of the brain that interprets signals received by touch - sensitive parts of a body.

Researchers at Radboud University use visual illusions to demonstrate to what extent the brain interprets visual signals.

Dr. Augustinaite studies the visual pathway, where signals from the retina are sent to the visual cortex, where the brain interprets signals from the eye.

January 4, 2006 Chemical signaling helps regulate sensory map formation in the brain Researchers from the University of Chicago have uncovered an important mechanism used by the developing brain to pattern nerve connections in the part of the brain that interprets visual signals.

Those tests were designed to detect activity in areas of the brain that are part of the higher - order cortex, which interprets the simple signals processed by the primary cortex — in this instance not just detecting a sound but potentially recognizing what it is.

Researchers from the University of Chicago have uncovered an important mechanism used by the developing brain to pattern nerve connections in the part of the brain that interprets visual signals.

Photoreceptors are specialized neurons in the retina that convert light into signals that the brain interprets as sight.

The brain also receives and interprets a multitude of signals sent to it by other parts of the body and by the environment.

Replacing rods and cones is challenging, because these cells have to establish connections with nerve fibers that feed signals into the optic nerve, which sends those signals to the brain to interpret.

So, now, when your body sends out the signal, «I need sweet food,» your brain can easily interpret it as «Get me a tub of rocky road ice cream,» instead of what your body is actually looking for, which is the energy, vitamins, and minerals that come from root vegetables.

Either one can then send messages to your brain, and signals from the eye to the brain get interpreted as light, whether or not actual light is entering the eye (the rings or spots of light you see are called phosphenes).

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure deep in the brain that is believed to be a communications hub between the parts of the brain that process incoming sensory signals and the parts that interpret these signals.

It directly influences your brain and how you receive signals and interpret those signals.

Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then «real» is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then «real» is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

The technology interprets signals from the driver's brain to help the vehicle's autonomous and manual systems learn from the driver.

The brain responds by interpreting these signals and transmitting appropriate instructions back through the brain stem and spinal cord to the appropriate destination via the peripheral nerves.

And he also brought up The Matrix, the sci - fi Keanu Reeves film, and recalled that the Morpheus character noted that «real is just electrical signals interpreted by the brain.»

Magic Leap has hired a team of neuroscientists and PhDs to work on how the brain interprets the world around it and wants to use a new technology called Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, or Digital Lightfield to create a single, seamless universe.

At the level of our «animal» instinct or mammalian brain this often gets interpreted as a danger signal that we are without support and that nobody cares about our existence.