Sentences with phrase «uses electrical activity»

For example, the Center brings in a device that uses electrical activity from a muscle to control a robotic gripper, which demonstrates the concept of a brain - machine interface.

The Myo armband is the first input device in the world to use the electrical activity of muscles to control technology.

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For example, a standard measurement tool used by neuromarketing is the EEG (electroencephalogram), which measures our brain's electrical activity.

EEG (Electroencephalography), is a test used to detect abnormalities related to electrical activity of the brain.

For example, doctors could one day routinely use the headsets to obtain a «quantitative measurement of depression» in patients based on their brains» electrical activity, Agus said.

Pedaling allows you to use some of the largest muscles in your body, your quadriceps, which stimulates muscular electrical activity and helps combat the many negative health effects of sitting all day without movement.

The wearable technology company is the maker of the Myo armband, which detects the electrical activity of arm muscles and translates them into computer input, so users can control technology using gestures.

In addition, surface geophysical techniques are used to map soil electrical properties in 3 - D, which greatly controls soil microbial activities.

Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.

So Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues recorded the electrical activity in almost 500 neurons in the somatosensory and motor cortex of a monkey's brain while it thought about using both its forelimbs.

As they slept, researchers recorded their electrical brain - wave activity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to record electrical activity in the brain.

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

This method was mainly invented to overcome the technological barrier to measure the activity from many neurons simultaneously, using the assumption that each neuron tends to fire spikes of a particular waveform which serves as its own electrical signature.

The team examined the brainwave patterns of 36 infants (17 in the first experiment and 19 in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which measures patterns of brain electrical activity via electrodes in a skull cap worn by the participants.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

They've ruined that but the University of Geneva, research is being done on sort of an amazing idea for being able to use lasers that would be directed, shot up into the sky into storm formations, that might have a lot electrical activity, basically creating a plasma channel to help guide the lightning down to a spot where you want it to hit so it's not just randomly hitting someplace else.

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical activity called gamma waves, report neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin.

One answer is to measure the brain's electrical activity using a common tool we call the electroencephalogram (EEG).

Using microelectrodes, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of pheromone - sensitive interneurons in male American cockroaches that relay signals of female - producing sex pheromones in the antennal lobe (functional homolog to the mammalian olfactory bulb) to higher - order centers.

Binghamton researchers encrypted patient data using a person's unique electrocardiograph (ECG)-- a measurement of the electrical activity of the heart measured by a biosensor attached to the skin — as the key to lock and unlock the files.

Electrical and computer engineering Professor Barry Van Veen wears an electrode net used to monitor brain activity via EEG signals.

With that method, researchers monitor electrical brain activity using electrodes.

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.

Based on years of scientific research into the root causes of the condition, the device uses precisely timed sounds and weak electrical pulses that activate touch - sensitive nerves, both aimed at steering damaged nerve cells back to normal activity.

Two techniques used in adults — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can measure blood flow; and electroencephalography (EEG), which measures electrical activity in the outer layers of the brain — have their drawbacks.

As in fMRI, scientists use these changes in blood flow to approximate electrical activity in neurons.

Intracortical BCIs such as BrainGate use a tiny array of implanted electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons in the motor cortex of the brain.

Brian Pollard at the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues used a new method called functional electrical impedance tomography by evoked response (fEITER) to record the brain activity of 20 people as they responded to a general anaesthetic.

Using electrophysiological methods to measure electrical currents through cell membranes, the research group at the Institute for Physiology and Pharmacology, led by Marjan Slak Rupnik, showed that dextromethorphan extends the periods of electrical activity in beta cells.

To find the answers, Phelps uses the tools and principles of cognitive neuroscience, a discipline that explores how the brain gives rise to the mind: how neuroanatomy and the electrical activity of nerve cells relate to thoughts and actions.

These are the electrocardiogram (ECG), which measures the electrical activity of the heart using leads on the chest, and fingertip pulse oximetry which uses photoplethysmography.

Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.

The team used a quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG), which measures electrical activity through 19 electrodes resting on the head during specific tasks.

Even after complete spinal paralysis, the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted stimulator.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart's contractile and electrical activity.

An intracortical BCI uses a tiny silicon chip, just over one - sixth of an inch square, from which protrude 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain to about the thickness of a quarter and tap into the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the motor cortex.

First they practised activating the muscle using an armband of sensors that picked up on the electrical activity.

fMRI works by tracking blood flow in the brain, which can be used as a real - time proxy for electrical activity when neurons fire.

To determine which neural recordings corresponded to the «ignored» and «attended» speech, the team reconstructed speech patterns from the brain's electrical activity using a mathematical model.

Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri used a novel combination of recording electrical activity of single brain cells and blocking neurotransmitter chemicals that carry nerve signals from one nerve cell or neuron to the next.

The researchers also used EEGs to monitor electrical activity in the brain as the 13 people with OCD viewed images linked with their obsessions, such as cleaning toilets.

Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

18 healthy volunteers were monitored by using EEG to measure the electrical activity generated by their brains» neurons (the signalling cells) while simultaneously recording fMRI measurements.

Using these direct electrical recordings, the team was able to test the level of high frequency neuronal activity (a marker of neurons firing) in this region, a very precise measure which captures activity tied to cognition processes lasting mere hundreds of milliseconds.

These activities included turning on lights, using electrical appliances and the continuous adjustment of the thermostat.