Here's how it works: The first participant, or «respondent,» wears a cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine that
records electrical brain activity.
Gow's method of investigating how the human brain perceives and distinguishes among elements of spoken language combines electroencephalography (EEG), which
records electrical brain activity; magnetoencephalograohy (MEG), which the measures subtle magnetic fields produced by brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals brain structure.
That allowed researchers to
record electrical brain activity from individual neurons while the participants moved or tried to move their fingers and wrists, which were equipped with sensors to record physical movement.
Not exact matches
Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to
record electrical activity in the
brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.
So Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues
recorded the
electrical activity in almost 500 neurons in the somatosensory and motor cortex of a monkey's
brain while it thought about using both its forelimbs.
As they slept, researchers
recorded their
electrical brain - wave
activity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG).
Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to
record electrical activity in the
brain.
Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to
record and analyze the
electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the
brain.
The team embarked on a massive
brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while
electrical brain activity was
recorded at the scalp.
The researchers
recorded electrical activity in the
brains of 10 female participants with fibromyalgia.
The participants were asked to recall some of the word pairs ten minutes later, then left to sleep overnight while the researchers
recorded the
electrical activity of their
brains.
In deep, slow - wave sleep,
recordings of the
brain's
electrical activity show sparse bursts of big, slow waves.
To go further, the pair started combining their electrode
recordings of individual neurons with readings from an intracranial EEG, which measures overall
electrical activity in a larger area of the
brain.
In an electroencephalogram (EEG)-- a
recording of the
brain's
electrical activity — the synchronous rhythm of the nerve cells manifests as a periodic pattern.
They trace the development of the face in embryos, scan
brains, read the
electrical activity of muscles, and
record grins and pouts on high - speed video.
Brian Pollard at the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues used a new method called functional
electrical impedance tomography by evoked response (fEITER) to
record the
brain activity of 20 people as they responded to a general anaesthetic.
Scientists
recorded electrical activity in the
brains of rat pups as their mamas nursed, licked and cared for their offspring.
For example,
records of
electrical activity in the
brain showed that, on average, they experienced deep, non-rapid eye movement sleep for 30 per cent less time compared with participants who slept during a new moon.
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.
Inside the hat, an array of up to 128 EEG sensors
record electrical activity leaking from the wearer's
brain through their scalp.
Massimini and his colleagues
record the
brain's «echo» with electroencephalography, a measure of
electrical activity, and then turn that data into a numerical score between 0 and 1.
To determine which neural
recordings corresponded to the «ignored» and «attended» speech, the team reconstructed speech patterns from the
brain's
electrical activity using a mathematical model.
To compare these patterns to the actual
electrical activity in the
brains, the researchers inserted electrodes capable of
recording the firing patterns of individual neurons.
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.
They then
recorded an electroencephalogram, or EEG — a reading of the
brain's
electrical activity — as the subjects watched acronyms flash on a computer screen.
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.
We will
record the
electrical activity in the
brains as animals perform a visual decision - making task.
They
recorded electrical activity just outside individual
brain cells of interest, and compared the signal with sounds the birds made.
This is bad news, because the reason we put electrodes in the
brain is to
record the
electrical activity of those neurons.
These electrodes are used to
record the
electrical activity produced by the neurons, and also to electrically stimulate the
brain.
In addition, he uses sophisticated
electrical -
recording techniques to probe
brain activity at a cellular level.
Surgeons implant a grid of electrodes directly onto the surface of the
brain to
record its
electrical activity.
Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian
brain; new ways of
recording and manipulating the
electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the
activity of all the cells in the
brains of small animals.
For this experiment, an Electroencephalography (EEG) sensor was attached to all 16 pet dogs to monitor and
record electrical activity of the
brain.
Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test
records the
electrical activity of the
brain in response to sound stimulation.