Sentences with phrase «measured electrical signals»

Researchers measured electrical signals from the brain in human subjects before and after a Botox treatment.

At the same time, she measured electrical signals in neighboring neurons using microelectrodes that can record small voltage changes across a neuron's membrane.

What makes it different is electromyography: electrodes that measure the electrical signals from your forearm muscles to tell, for instance, whether you're making a fist, pointing a finger or giving a thumbs - up.

* Thalmic Labs This startup, based in Kitchener, Ontario, makes an A.I. - infused armband that measures electrical signals in the wearer's muscles and enables them to control everything from phones and laptops to bionic limbs (for amputees).

To determine if depression has an effect on vision, neuropsychiatrist Ludger Tebartz van Elst of the University of Freiburg hooked up depressed patients and control subjects to a pattern electroretinograph, a device that measures electrical signals in the retina.

Each pyramid, in turn, is equipped with an electrode, for measuring electrical signals or sending stimuli to the network.

In 1994, as a postdoctoral researcher then at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first scientist to «patch» two living neurons simultaneously — to apply microscopic pipettes to freshly harvested rat neurons to measure the electrical signals fired between them.

In electroencephalography, or EEG, electrodes measure the electrical signals produced by the brain's neurons through the scalp.

Not exact matches

Sure enough, when Bullmore's team measured the length of time that two electrical signals from random locations in the brain were «in phase», it was the same at all signal frequencies (PLoS Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pcbi.1000314).

The hair cells formed normal bundles (see images) that responded to sound waves and signaled the brain, as measured by electrical recordings.

Graphene transistors integrated in a flexible neural probe enables electrical signals from neurons to be measured with high accuracy and density.

Researchers at NIST's campus in Boulder, Colo., made the custom superconducting circuits, or chips, that amplify electrical signals generated by microwave detectors measuring primordial particles of light.

Cell - based biosensors measure changes in cell cultures via electrical signals.

Then they pulsed electrical current — similar to the current in a brain — through each slice and measured the strength of the electrical signal in the synapses.

Libet also measured brain electrical activity immediately before a volunteer made a decision to press a switch in response to a visual signal.

18 healthy volunteers were monitored by using EEG to measure the electrical activity generated by their brains» neurons (the signalling cells) while simultaneously recording fMRI measurements.

«Our model is still incomplete, but the electrical signals produced by the computer simulation and what was actually measured in the rat brain have some striking similarities,» says Allen Institute scientist Costas Anastassiou.

But what is it about the structure and function of each and every neuron, and the way they network together, that give rise to these electrical signals measured in a mammalian brain?

The helmet features a soft forehead - based sensor that uses EEG (electroencephalography) to measure electrical activity in the rider's brain, along with an ear - based sensor that's used to remove noise from the EEG signal.

More specifically, the controller # 212 (shown in FIG. 2) may be configured to detect a position or movement of a finger along the length of the touch - sensitive retention clip # 218 based on an electrical signal measured by the touch sensor # 214 that is sent to a computing device, via the communication interface # 220.

It does this by measuring the electrical resistance in your body, by sending a signal from the underside of the tracker, through your arm, and to a second metal contact on the top of the tracker, which you need to touch with your finger.