Sentences with phrase «own brain signals»

The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

The trick is to teach the user how to associate particular brain signals with specific tasks by presenting a repeating stimulus — auditory, visual or tactile — and getting the user to focus on it.

We're taking inaudible brain signals and making them audible through sonification.

A flat - line brain signal produces a dull, computery - sounding singing voice.

Another gene, PCDH15, plays a role in the hair cells» ability to convert sound into brain signals (Molecular Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1038 / MP.2014.8).

According to the new study, ErbB4 coordinates a cascade of brain signals that «bridge» the two regions.

«These patterns of variability that we notice in the brain signals are what we think relates to the ability to respond to new challenges in the environment,» added Nomi.

Various groups are working on developing wheelchairs, robots and computers that can be controlled by brain signals alone.

When the program detected a pattern in the monkey's brain signalling the intention to move, it moved the virtual hands in the corresponding direction.

«Brain development and aging: New study reveals that brain signals in specific regions change over a lifespan in ways that might be important for maintaining flexibility.»

Like ECOG, EEG relies on brain signals picked up by an array of electrodes that are sensitive to the subtle voltage oscillations caused by the firing of groups of neurons.

Implants that beam brain signals around a break in the spinal cord may let paralysed people walk again

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

University of Adelaide researchers have shown that it is possible for stroke patients to improve motor function using special training involving connecting brain signals with a computer.

With neurofeedback, individuals can gradually begin to control their own brain signals, thus reducing their state of depression or anxiety.»

The eight patients spent at least two hours a week using brain - machine interfaces, or devices controlled through their brain signals.

The brain - computer interface extracts information from the brain signals about what movements he intends to make, then passes the information to command the electrical stimulation system.

What that means, Hochberg says, is that the brain signals that once controlled the subject's paralyzed hand and arm were still there and functioning — they just could not pass through the damaged spinal cord to allow the arm and hand to move.

In this research, authors worked with electrical brain signals that allowed the activation of the presentation of visual stimuli in the iPad's touchscreen.

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

This device allows the activation of any environmental instrument through specific electrical brain signals selected at will.

A mind - reading device that taps into a driver's brain can recognise and act on the brain signals to stop the car precious milliseconds before the signals become leg movements.

Patients reported reduced pain when instructed to move the phantom hand based on brain signals decoded from movement of the intact hand.

It detects brain signals from inside a blood vessel near the motor cortex and relays those signals to a computer.

Following hours of practice, a computer learned to identify brain signals associated with different wrist and finger movements.

The device uses brain signals generated in the motor cortex to control a computer mouse directly, allowing him to communicate.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have developed a device that re-routes brain signals in Parkinsonism disorder patients, allowing them to regain mobility.

Once they are in place, Grunwald will record brain signals in real time during seizures and use the information to try to identify the epileptogenic tissue.

However, the missing cells make Pro-melanin concentrating hormone (Pmch), a brain signal that was not perturbed in zebrafish.

The array, called BrainGate, reads a pattern of brain signals and then sends them via wires to an external computer that translates it into a command.

Every time their brain signals settled into the slow - wave pattern characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep, the researchers sent a series of beeps through the headphones, gradually getting louder, until the participants» slow - wave patterns dissipated and they entered shallower sleep.

A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.

The work was aimed at developing a system to help paralyzed people control external devices, such as a mouse pointer, with brain signals.

«Decoding what they intend from their brain signals could offer means to communicate and walk again.»

This wireless — fully wearable — neuroprosthetic interface essentially decodes brain signals about walking and stimulates the spinal cord to contract the correct group of leg muscles to enact the intended walking movements — without any therapeutic training.

«Previous research documented brain activity in response to sound during early developmental phases, but it was hard to determine where in the brain these signals were coming from,» said Patrick Kanold, a professor of biology at UMD and the senior author of the research paper.

Soon a permanently embedded grid of electrodes will identify those patterns and simultaneously send them to an external processer that will convert the brain signals into synthesized words.

The basic technology that Nicolelis and colleagues used to extract instructions for movement from the mishmash of monkey brain signals isn't new, says Jose Contreras - Vidal, a biomedical engineer at the University of Houston in Texas.

The researchers hope that this proof - of - concept study could lead to smaller devices that wirelessly transmit brain signals to wearable, muscle - stimulating garments.

«If you look at brain signaling on the level of individual neurons, it looks very mysterious, but if you take a step back and observe the activity of a population of hundreds of neurons instead, you might see simpler, clearer patterns that intuitively make more sense.»

In your article on decoding brain signals (1 November, p 8), the scientists report that they have followed their work...

The patient's brain signals were decoded by an electrocorticographic (ECoG) implant that can cover a large area of the brain, taking in and translating information from many groups of neurons and providing more stable readings than have been achieved through other methods.

The electric brain signals, measured by using EEG, of males and females show differences.

Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity.

The colors in this image trace this kaleidoscopic crisscrossing and show the directions, in three dimensions, in which brain signals travel.

Once the neuronal model had developed an accurate level of prediction the researchers switched the control of the cursor from the joystick to the robotic arm, which in turn was controlled by the monkey's brain signals.

Acute stress, says psychologist Norman Pecoraro, provokes a flurry of brain signals to the adrenal glands, which in turn release a flood of cortisol and other hormones.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

Andy Coghlan's report of brain signals from monkeys being used to recreate photos of faces is potentially important for many reasons (10 June, p 14).

This suggests that interferon gamma normally dampens brain signals in this region — and that it affects social behavior.