Sentences with phrase «use brain surface»

For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»

Not exact matches

Stop looking at the surface and just use your brain

This technique provides a measure of blood oxygen concentration in surface blood vessels, indicative of activity in the brain's outer layers, using a set of wearable probes in a cap that is placed on the head.

«Imaging could potentially augment the existing approaches that clinicians use to evaluate brain injury by looking below the surface for TBI pathology,» Morey said.

Stolk plans future studies with Knight using fine - tuned brain mapping on the actual surfaces of the brains of volunteers, so - called electrocorticography.

It describes how the brain constructs a mental depiction of the surface using sensory signals from two fingers as they explore a surface over time and space.

These use tactile illusions to tickle our fingertips and trick our brain into feeling a texture, or employ morphing materials that rise from a flat surface to form graspable shapes.

The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain's cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts.

But the magnetic fields used in TMS affect only brain tissue near the brain's surface.

Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at the brain surface.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

These devices record activity in the brain either from the surface of the scalp or directly using a sensor that is surgically implanted.

We sampled the bees from the surface of the bee ball at 0, 30, and 60 min after formation of the bee ball and examined the Acks - expressing brain regions using in situ hybridization (n = 5, 7 and 7 for 0, 30 and 60 min, respectively).

[B and E] Brain leukocytes were percoll purified from the remaining brain and meningeal homogenate, stained for leukocyte surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytomBrain leukocytes were percoll purified from the remaining brain and meningeal homogenate, stained for leukocyte surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytombrain and meningeal homogenate, stained for leukocyte surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytometry.

[B] Brain leukocytes were percoll purified from the remaining brain and meningeal homogenate, stained for surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytomBrain leukocytes were percoll purified from the remaining brain and meningeal homogenate, stained for surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytombrain and meningeal homogenate, stained for surface markers CD4, CD8, CD19, CD11b, and Ly6G, and assayed using flow cytometry.

Brain surface points (including ventricle surfaces) are found using the registered brain images to sub-voxel accuracy, and the surface motion estimated on the basis of these poBrain surface points (including ventricle surfaces) are found using the registered brain images to sub-voxel accuracy, and the surface motion estimated on the basis of these pobrain images to sub-voxel accuracy, and the surface motion estimated on the basis of these points.

Upon collection from donating institutions, all brains are weighed and photographed from all angles and 3D surface models are created using photogrammetry techniques.

Using microelectrodes to monitor individual neurons in the brains of owl monkeys, he found that the somatosensory cortex has a complete topographical «map» of the entire body surface, in which adjacent areas of the map responded to body parts that were next to one another, such as the fingers.

Both are addressed by recent developments that include: 1) a novel hyperscanning technology (functional near - infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS) that acquires hemodynamic signals simultaneously between two naturally interacting partners using a spectral absorbance technique that detects changes in hemodynamic signals acquired by surface - mounted optodes, and 2) a recently proposed Interactive Brain Hypothesis that establishes a broad theoretical framework for two - person social neuroscience.

Recently, among surface coatings there is an increasing interest in using carbohydrates as biomimetic functional molecules on the surface of nanoparticles [2], [6]- [8] for the diagnosis and treatment, for instance, of brain diseases like glioma and stroke [9], [10].

Our carotid arteries, though, which connect our heart to our brain, come close enough to the surface in our necks that we can visualize the arterial wall using harmless sound waves with ultrasound.

As you'll recall, Super Metroid puts bounty hunter Samus Aran on the surface of Planet Zebes yet again as she explores the planet in order to recover the last surviving metroid before Mother Brain and the Space Pirates can exploit it for their own uses.