But the number of neurons at a time with
which microelectrode arrays can interface must be increased several-fold while making sure the scale - up does not cause damage to brain tissue.
Not exact matches
What's more is that each
microelectrode array is made up of eight «tines,» each with eight
microelectrodes which can record from a total 64 subregions of the brain at once.
In addition to inflammation, previous
microelectrode brain implants made of silicon or microwire have caused neuronal death and glial scarring,
which is damage to connective tissue in the nervous system.
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.