Sentences with phrase «neural signals»

The electrodes will be programmed to search for specific types of neural signals — for example, those corresponding to a subject's desire to move her hand rather than her foot.

This increases the positive emotional neural signal in the brain.

Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells.

Of all the human senses, the visual system — the network that turns light into neural signals that create the perception of sight — is the most studied and best understood.

They found three candidate genes that they knew were involved in neural signaling for appetite, anxiety, and depression.

When the volunteers reached toward different points on a table, a computer was able to analyze the exact neural signals associated with performing those actions.

The gold wires, meanwhile, conducted neural signals through the skull to the outside, where they could be amplified and analyzed.

The result of this compression is diminished neural signaling, poor alignment and shoulder function.

If the monkey's arm is tied down, the monkey learns to control the robot arm through pure thought — but with an entirely different set of neural signals.

«By looking at the decoded neural signals, the doctor could know.»

Then, instead of sending neural signals from the animal's brain to a robot, he shunts them back into the muscles of the paralyzed arm, thereby bypassing the spinal cord.

But Kennedy collaborator Frank Guenther, associate professor of cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, and his colleague Jonathan Brumberg recently worked out a system that translates neural signals from Ramsey's implant into vocal form via a synthesiser that produces the corresponding sound.

In an earlier study, Dyer discovered that hand motion directions corresponded with reliable neural signaling patterns in the brain's motor neocortex.

«But we show that the two work together, with neural signals underlying working memory helping to guide those that support reinforcement learning.»

Future studies investigating how neural signals change in response to microstimulation (and how these changes vary with the precise targeting of the stimulating electrode) will be critical for increasing our understanding, not only of the physiological signatures of microstimulation, but also the microcircuit dynamics underlying memory.

Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort brain activity by individual neurons, a technology that could open the door to recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...

This year, many projects involved reading neural signals using electromyography (EMG) and heart rate monitoring, but for different problems across target populations.

A demonstration of brain - connected interfaces shows the power of this technology to control robots and other machines using neural signals alone

Daisuke Kurabayashi, Yosuke Takahashi, Ryo Minegishi, Elisa Tosello, Enrico Pagello, Ryohei Kanzaki Modification in Command Neural Signals of an Insect's Odor Source Searching Behavior on the Brain - Machine Hybrid System.

The article, «Beneficial effects of a higher - protein breakfast on the appetitive, hormonal, and neural signals controlling energy intake regulation in overweight / obese, «breakfast skipping,» late - adolescent girls,» was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

We study the maturation enzymes known as proprotein convertases, implicated in diabetes and obesity as well as neural signaling.

As he worked on ways to extract complex neural signals from EEG readings, Contreras - Vidal discovered why it had never been done before.

Distortion illusions are arguably the most controversial since they most concern the distinction between illusions created by receiving neural signals (reception), where things can go wrong physiologically, and illusions of misreading signals (perception), where things can go wrong cognitively; back to the physiological versus the cognitive again.

Nerve cells use the movement of positively charged sodium and potassium ions across a membrane to create a chemical gradient that drives neural signals.

FFRs are neural signals generated in the brain when people hear sounds.

The findings suggest that even the simplest of choices, such as turning left or right, are the result of multiple neural signals triggered by recently encountered cues, which then propagate in a complex yet well - organized manner and converge in a single decision.

They could discern this by neural signals emitted by the babies that showed they recognized the pitch and vowel changes in the fake word.

As the baby suckles at the breast neural signals are sent to the hypothalamus which mediates the level and rhythm of secretion of the GnRH hormone.

Miranda and his colleagues have used one of the oldest of these systems: electroencephalography (EEG), in which electrodes on the skull pick up faint neural signals.

And workers at Neural Signals Inc., outside Atlanta, have been able to extract vowels from the motor cortex of a paralyzed patient who lost the ability to talk by sinking electrodes into the area of his brain that controls his vocal cords.

Medical ethicist Jens Clausen of Tübingen University in Germany points out that training people to generate the appropriate neural signals to control machines might have effects on mood and behaviour, as well as memory and speech.

After earning a Ph.D., he made his way to Emory University in Atlanta, where, as a postdoc, he began recording and studying neural signals from rats» brains.

At Princeton, neurobiologist Lisa Boulanger — one of Shatz's former postdocs, who now has her own lab — began investigating whether changes in MHCI levels could cause neural signaling problems mimicking autism in mice.

The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall robot was much larger than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as easily as a life - size mechanical arm.

Using electrophysiological measurements in those areas of the brain that are responsible for the planning and execution of hand movements, the scientists could predict a variety of hand positions through the analysis of exact neural signals.

Ultimately his increasingly sophisticated technology could amplify neural signals about 10,000 times, converting them to radio waves and transmitting them to an FM receiver.

Neural signals zip through our brains.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) makes great visuals of brain structures and broad neural signaling.

Never before has a paralyzed patient been able to precisely move his hand using the same neural signals that controlled his hand before his injury.

«There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is directional, that neural signals move in a particular direction, then stop, and start somewhere else,» says.

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Few reliable tools exist for detecting neural signals of awareness in people who appear unresponsive, says Lorina Naci, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and lead author of the new study.

Both are key neural signaling proteins that have previously been implicated in psychosis.

However, the team was excited to discover that the animals were also missing the delta rhythm, suggesting that this specific, dopamine - dependent neural signal might be important for timing abilities.

Laughlin and David Attwell at University College London estimate that neural signaling accounts for 80 percent of the brain's energy use, whereas keeping those neurons charged and ready to fire takes only 15 percent.

As he sat in the gloomy lab, watching neural signals dance in green light across an oscilloscope, he noticed something strange.