Sentences with phrase «trained rhesus»

The researchers have trained the rhesus monkeys to repeatedly grasp 50 objects of different shapes and sizes.

First, a researcher trained rhesus monkeys to pull a lever to avoid electroshock after hearing a specific sound.

The research team made its findings by recording and analyzing the neural activity in the ventral premotor cortex of three trained rhesus macaques as they participated in a series of grip tasks.

In later endeavors, Nicolelis trained rhesus monkeys to use brain - machine interfaces to control robotic limbs, and later, the 3 - D movements of an avatar — animated versions of themselves on a digital screen.

In recent experiments, Hugo Merchant and his colleagues at the National Autonomous University of Mexico tried to train rhesus monkeys to tap a button in sync with a metronome.

Not exact matches

For this, two rhesus macaques were trained to repeatedly grasp 50 different objects.

In January 2008, working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nicolelis took another step forward, this time with Idoya, a rhesus monkey trained to walk upright on a treadmill for treats.

Rhythmic behavior has recently been observed in other animals, including parrots, budgerigars, sea lions, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees, although in the majority of these cases animals were explicitly trained to synchronize.

The rhesus monkeys were trained to move their hands to a light cue on a touch screen (for example from the center of the screen to the left), while at the same time the activity of neurons in their posterior parietal cortex was recorded.