Sentences with phrase «tiny electrodes»

A key experiment was to implant tiny electrodes into the striatum of rats — and monkeys — as they learned new tasks.

Later, the flies» hearing was tested by playing a series of song pulses at a naturalistic volume, and measuring the physiological response by inserting tiny electrodes into their antennae.

To find this out, researchers implanted tiny electrodes in a region of spiders» brains that would show whether sound was being processed.

Then his team attached tiny electrodes to a spot a few vertebrae higher than the tail, on top of membranes just above the spinal cord.

Tiny electrodes around the display recognize the difference between a tap and a press, which provides instant access to a wide set of contextually specific controls.

Then, they implanted tiny electrodes on the birds» brains and connected them with Neurologger2.

The team wired up the legs of volunteers with tiny electrodes slipped into bundles of sensory nerves just under the skin.

Passing a current through tiny electrodes attached to each end of the benzene molecule sent electrons coursing through it, generating heat.

When the researchers poked tiny electrodes into the shrimps» eyes and directed circularly polarized light onto them, they found that the same cells responded in different ways, at times recognizing the properties of circularly polarized light.

A television screen based on the electrochromic effect might consist of an array of thousands of tiny electrodes.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

Using tiny electrodes, they monitored the response of brain cells responsible for movement.

So the team plans to attach tiny electrodes to mosquito antennae, which they use to smell, and test them against individual body chemicals.

Hoy's team had inserted tiny electrodes into the spiders» brains.

To investigate this, Jens Herberholz at the University of Maryland and his colleagues implanted tiny electrodes in the neurons that drive tail - flip behaviour.

Ute Neugebauer, who works at Leibniz - IPHT and the University Hospital Jena points to tiny electrodes that are fixed on the surface of a stamp - sized chip: «Electric fields secure bacteria in a very small area.»

The team looked at eight patients who each had 64 tiny electrodes implanted in their brains before epilepsy surgery (a procedure to pinpoint the source of their seizures).

Experiments by Alejandro Heredia of the University of Aveiro in Portugal and colleagues show that ferroelectric polarity flipping induced by a tiny electrode operates on an area of glycine crystal less than 100 nanometers across.

When the field reached a certain strength, the mixture suddenly separated into two phases, with the silicone - rich phase lining the edges of the tiny electrodes.

In the past decade, the technology of tiny electrodes that can touch individual brain cells has leaped forward.

The wire ends at a tiny electrode wrapped around a nerve that controls muscles in his tongue.

At other times, dozens of tiny electrodes are glued to the patient's scalp to pick up electrical signals through electroencephalography (EEG).

They used tiny electrodes to measure the firing of the R2 neurons in well - rested, awake fruit flies; in fruit flies that were an hour into their sleep cycle; and in fruit flies after 12 hours of sleep deprivation.

As Greenberg watched, an ophthalmic surgeon guided a tiny electrode into the man's eye and brought it as close as possible to the surface of his retina.

The chip contains hundreds of tiny electrodes that generate a rapidly oscillating electric field that selectively pulls the nanoparticles out of a plasma sample.