Sentences with phrase «using electrical signals»

The cells that make up the brain, neurons, communicate with each other using electrical signals.

Nerve cells communicate by using electrical signals.

«People believe that the best computer would be one in which the processing is done using electrical signals and the signal transfer is done by optics,» Kar said.

The optical data pulses are then regenerated by using the electrical signals to turn on and off an auxiliary laser source.

Neurons are specialized cells of the nervous system that communicate using electrical signals, which propagate down long, wire - like projections called axons.

Neurons communicate using electrical signals.

It works using the electrical signals from your finger.

Traditional implants rely on a series of electrodes that lie directly against the membrane of the inner ear, and use electrical signals to stimulate the auditory nerves lying beneath.

Tandon uses electrical signals and environmental manipulations to grow artificial tissues for transplants and other therapies.

Electrical signals could also play an important role in modeling brain tissue, in which neurons communicate via electrical impulses, and for mimicking wound healing, which uses electrical signaling to guide cells to areas that need repair.

The vast majority of cabling you use for your media centers, personal computers, and audio / visual equipment uses electrical signals.

There's also no call speaker — instead Xiaomi has included a technology that employs the acoustics of the phone's ceramic design, which wraps around the back and sides of the device, and uses electrical signals to create the sound in the ear when on a call.

«You could, for instance, create eating utensils which use electrical signals to artificially increase the sweetness or saltiness of foods, without you having to add these ingredients to a meal.»

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By using methods and tools such as EEG or MRI, neuromarketing read electrical signals from the brain and analyze them to provide their clients with the answers they need.

These materials are also used in everyday devices, such as loudspeakers, which rely on piezoelectrics to convert electrical signals to mechanical vibrations which create sound waves to produce the desired acoustic signal.

He'd like to see the researchers use stricter quantitative standards to decide if an electrical signal represents sleep.

The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) is widely used, for instance in infrared remote controls, the high - frequency components of mobile phones and for converting electrical signals into light for fibre optical transmission, as well as in solar panels for deployment in spacecraft.

When Sørensen used the hand to grasp an object, electrical signals from the pressure pads fired directly into his nerves, giving him a sense of touch.

Mammalian neurons transmit electrical signals using much less energy than suspected.

The new device would use the same type of sensor, but the signal it generates would travel to a microchip implanted in the ear, which would convert it to an electrical signal and pass it on to an electrode in the cochlea.

Instead, they translate sound into electrical signals that are used to electrically stimulate the cochlea — a spiral - shaped part of the inner ear attached to the auditory nerve.

The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles.

The currently employed method of measurement, which makes use of a second metallic layer converting these magnetic waves into a measurable electrical signal, has so far not been able to allow for a distinct assignment of experimentally detected signals.

Detailed looks at how the brain uses these waves raise the possibility of tweaking the signals with electrical nudges — interventions that could lead to therapies that can correct memory problems and mental illness, for instance.

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.

TMS uses a magnetic coil placed on the head to increase electrical signaling a few centimeters into the brain.

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.

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

The device uses electrical stimulation to block the pain signals from reaching the brain.

For example, the scientists suggest that the technique could be used to visualize myelin, the lipid layer that wraps neurons and guarantees fast transmission of electrical signals, because it has a larger refractive index than the neurons it surrounds.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal because of an outer shield of amino acids called a turret situated above the channel's entrance.

An electronic stethoscope overcomes the problem of low sound levels by electronically amplifying body sounds, using an electromagnetic diaphragm that captures the diaphragm movement as an electrical signal.

Using light increases transmission rates and reduces the energy loss caused by heating when an electrical signal is used.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

One alternative is to replace electrical interconnects with energy - efficient optical interconnects that carry data using light signals.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

Nerve cells rely on ion channels and pumps to orchestrate the continual ebb and flow of charged particles across the cell membrane, which enables the electrical signaling that nerves use to communicate.

During the renal denervation procedure with the Symplicity device used in this trial, a catheter is threaded through arteries to deliver radiofrequency energy that inactivates kidney nerves, interrupting electrical signals to and from the kidney, an organ that performs a major role in regulating blood pressure.

Specialised cells that could carry messages using electrical impulses and chemical signals — the first nerve cells — arose very early on.

They can also be used to record electrical signals inside the brain — a useful tool for neuroscience.

Katsaggelos, the Joseph Cummings Professor in the McCormick School's department of electrical engineering and computer science and an NU - ACCESS faculty member, used computational methods to reconstruct the missing pixels of the X-ray fluorescence signal from the acquisition of only approximately 25 percent of the total pixels.

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.

When the sensors come into contact with sweat they generate electrical signals that are amplified and filtered, and then calibrated using skin temperature.

As the protective sheath — best imagined as the insulating material around an electrical wire — wears off, the nerve signals slow down or stop, and the patient's vision, sensation and use of limbs get impaired.

Metals are more efficient at focussing light than traditional transparent materials, and are also used to direct electrical signals.

With a remote control, Darrel uses the stimulator for up to 45 minutes each day, applying different programs to transmit electrical impulses into his spinal cord that mimic the same signals that would come from the brain.

The future of computing may lie not in electrons, but in photons — that is, in microprocessors that use light instead of electrical signals.

Neurons in themselves are complex structures that use electrical and molecular signals to send information to neighbouring neurons, and the brain as a whole structure.