Sentences with phrase «measure electrical responses»
Using a technique called gas chromatography, Schiestl and colleagues in Sweden and Germany separated the components of the female bee extract that sexually arouses males, then measured the electrical response of male antennae to each compound to determine which ones are active.
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It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.
Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.
Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.
Scientists can perturb the brain with a magnet and analyze its electrical response to measure consciousness.
Libet also measured brain electrical activity immediately before a volunteer made a decision to press a switch in response to a visual signal.
With this additional arrangement the wire is predicted to host a Majorana quasiparticle, and experimenters can look for its presence by carefully measuring the wire's electrical response.
Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.
The electrical activity in the legs — the way of measuring muscle response — goes to zero, which is why it feels so weird and achy when you eventually do stand up.»
According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.
The brainstem auditory evoked response test, commonly abbreviated as BAER, reads electrical activity in the ear and brain to measure their response (or lack thereof) to sound stimuli.
During BAER testing, we measure the electrical activity in your pet's auditory nerve pathway in response to a number of clicks that are transmitted to their ears through headphones.