Sentences with phrase «record electrical signals»

Masmanidis is developing silicon - based electrodes that can record electrical signals from the brain while the miniscope records imaging data.

They can also be used to record electrical signals inside the brain — a useful tool for neuroscience.

At the end of the second year, they moved to John O'Keefe's group at University College of London where, Moser says, he expanded his knowledge by learning to record electrical signals from individual neurons in the hippocampus.

As the animals learned, the researchers recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in the amygdala, a brain structure that forms memories of fearful experiences.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

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Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted, and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped.

They managed to record the reactions at very high resolution, as the electrical signals were carefully controlled and could therefore be delivered multiple times with exact reproducibility.

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

Using microelectrodes, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of pheromone - sensitive interneurons in male American cockroaches that relay signals of female - producing sex pheromones in the antennal lobe (functional homolog to the mammalian olfactory bulb) to higher - order centers.

Interestingly, by recording the electrical activity in the spinal cords of mice depleted of NPY interneurons, the researchers discovered that the NPY neurons seem to selectively inhibit or gate light touch signals coming from hairy skin, but not the non-hairy (glabrous) skin, such as the skin found on your palm.

Electrical recordings of signals transmitted from the hippocampus suggested that the animals had developed place cells — cells that are believed to convey a sense of location — and that these cells were firing when an animal passed through a familiar place.

After two or more weeks of recording the activity, doctors program the device to specifically respond to these abnormal signals by delivering imperceptible electrical pulses to the brain that normalize the activity.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

In the approximately 30 seconds between a rat's last heartbeat and the point when its brain stopped producing signals, the team carefully recorded its neuronal oscillations, or the frequency with which brain cells were firing their electrical signals.

Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri used a novel combination of recording electrical activity of single brain cells and blocking neurotransmitter chemicals that carry nerve signals from one nerve cell or neuron to the next.

The team is exploring controlling their exoskeleton via patients» electromyography (EMG) signal — which records electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles — so that they'll be more actively involved in their training.

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.

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

Assistant Professor Arindam Basu from NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering said the research team have tested the chip on data recorded from animal models, which showed that it could decode the brain's signal to the hand and fingers with 95 per cent accuracy.

They recorded electrical activity just outside individual brain cells of interest, and compared the signal with sounds the birds made.

Itâ $ ™ s an example of the kinds of insights that can be obtained from implantable electrical stimulation devices, which can record signals from seizures inside the brain over long periods of time (more than a year).

It means recording the signals that the brain is trying to send via the spinal cord, translating them into an electrical stimulus pattern that the nervous system understands, and then providing that pattern of electrical stimulation at some point below the level of the injury.

Also in the department of psychology, Geoffrey Woodman studies how electrical signals recorded from the scalp reveal cognitive processes like attention and short - term memory, and he has extended this to research with monkeys so that he can locate the sources of the signals.

Other investigators include Frank Tong, who has pioneered methods to «decode» mental states from brain imaging signals, and Sean Polyn, who uses brain imaging methods as well as recordings of the electrical signals from the scalp to learn how memories are formed and retrieved.

The research, published online on April 18 in the journal Lab on a Chip, describes the successful recording of both electrical signals and cellular beating from normal human heart cells grown on a multi-electrode array developed at the Lab.

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