Site Search

… have this ability, you’d be overwhelmed by details of the sensory world. Every time you experienced something, if it … in a different part of the brain takes over when simple, sensory comparison is not enough for us to judge whether two …

… Communications . Working in rhythm There are millions of neurons in the brain, and each neuron produces its own … gamma rhythms are associated with encoding and retrieving sensory information. They also found that when gamma rhythms … rhythms are produced by superficial layers, which process sensory information. They also found that the beta waves were …

… researchers can identify functional regions by engineering neurons to flash when they become electrically active (and … studies of structural and functional coupling in other sensory and non-sensory cortical areas in the brains of mice and other animal …

… feels like and how the perceived features are encoded by neurons. But a second percept, explicitly or implicitly, … and duration – of direct manipulation of firing in sensory cortex, which we verify by optogenetics in rats. … to the processing of information in the human tactile sensory system. Outside my research activities, I am …

… bands associated with encoding, or inhibiting encoding, of sensory information across the cortex cortex visual cortex … By making and analyzing measurements of thousands of neurons and surrounding electric fields in three cortical … encoding of information – a form of top-down control of sensory activity. Meanwhile, they hypothesize that the …

… much less is visible in the cortex of a mouse treated with sensory gamma stimulation (right) than in a mouse left … and labeling, respectively. Memory improvement The brain’s neurons generate electrical signals that synchronize to form … demonstrated here is that we can use a totally different sensory modality to induce gamma oscillations in the brain. …

… odor of illness enters the mouse’s nose, that stimulates neurons in its vomeronasal organ to send an electrical signal … amygdalar nucleus. In so doing, this sequence feeds a sensory context, the female’s ill odor, in to a circuit to … found that a neuron called AIA integrates information from sensory neurons about the smell of food. NSM can help …