Sentences with phrase «single brain cell»

The team asked the patients to categorize a variety of images as fast as possible while their electrodes recorded the firing of nearly 1,500 single brain cells across the group in real time.

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.

University of Utah researchers used leopard frogs like the one shown here to measure tiny voltages from single brain cells and learn how those cells learn to detect short sounds.

When I am meal planning and I don't literally want to use a single brain cell, I put this down for a couple of dinners.

Everyone with a single brain cell or more knows it was lucky.

This delicate structure is a single brain cell (neuron) from the hippocampus, the area in the brain that contributes to memory formation and recall and learning.

At a symposium at The American Society of Human Genetics in Orlando, Florida, last month, they reported zooming in on the genes expressed in a single brain cell, as well as panning out to understand how genes foster connections among far - flung brain regions.

Erratum In a caption on page 66 in June's «Can a Single Brain Cell Recognize Bill Clinton?»

In a famous set of experiments in human subjects in 2005, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga found that pictures of actor Jennifer Aniston activated a single brain cell in the hippocampus region — the so - called Jennifer Aniston neuron.

At a symposium at The American Society of Human Genetics here last month, they reported zooming in on the genes expressed in a single brain cell, as well as panning out to understand how genes foster connections among far - flung brain regions.

Contradicting established assumptions, Edden Slomowitz and Boaz Styr, doctoral students in Dr. Slutsky's laboratory, discovered that single brain cells, on an individual basis, were unable to autonomously stabilize «spikes» in neuron communication over long periods.

Their image, showing six different computational visualizations of a cell membrane for a single brain cell, was featured as the cover story in a special issue of Biophysical Journal, that focuses on brain biophysics and is published by the Biophysical Society.