Sentences with phrase «thick electrical insulation»

Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: they have thick electrical insulation so that they can quickly relay stimuli from the body and signals from the brain to a toe, for example.

McCandliss and Niogi showed that the stronger the white matter tract in a particular mid-left area of the brain — the thicker its electrical insulation and the more well organized its fibers — the higher the reading scores of children they tested.