Previous research had shown that rats replayed
specific brain firing sequences while sleeping.
Not exact matches
The $ 299 device measures
brain electrical activity via 16 scalp sensors, which the company claims allow recognition of basic emotions and up to 30
specific thoughts, such as «lift this object,» «
fire death ray,» or «fly forward.»
Many neuroscientists had long believed that the only way to extract data from the
brain specific enough to control an external device was to penetrate the cortex and sink electrodes into the gray matter, where the electrodes could record the
firing of individual neurons.
In contrast, the new method used on mice causes certain nerve cells to
fire at a
specific rhythm, generating
brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.
Ramsey's
brain is already changing as his neurons learn to
fire in
specific ways that better control the synthesizer.
Neurons in multiple
brain regions
fire trains of action potentials anticipating
specific movements, but this «preparatory activity» has not been systematically compared across behavioral tasks.