Sentences with phrase «manipulating neural activity»

He has also worked extensively to develop new tools for monitoring and manipulating neural activity in awake, active animals.

The new technique, called Calcium and Light - Induced Gene Handling Toolkit or «Cal - Light,» allows researchers to observe and manipulate the neural activities underlying behavior with never - before - seen specificity, hopefully allowing researchers to identify causality between neuronal activity and behavior.

Not exact matches

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

The researchers also found that activation of ESP1 - responding neurons in the region of the brain called the hypothalamus enhanced sexual behavior in female mice, even in the absence of actual ESP1, by using various tools to chemically or optically control neural activities, combined with a process called the TRAP method, which allows them to selectively manipulate neurons responding to a particular stimulus.

To achieve realistic feelings of touch, neural engineers try to reproduce the natural patterns of nerve activity generated when we manipulate objects.