Electricity travels from the top electrode, through the insulator, to the bottom, or ground electrode.
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His idea was to pull the brain inside the electrode so the electrode would stay safely anchored inside the brain.
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Once on, each electrode picks up currents generated by the firing of thousands of neurons, but only in the area covered by that electrode.
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Electrons flow from a negative electrode called an anode through a material, often a liquid, called an electrolyte, to a positive electrode, the cathode.
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During charge, the ions move in the direction of the negative electrode and during discharge, they move in the direction of the positive electrode.
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Neuroscientists think the current makes the brain cells underneath the positive electrode (anode) work harder, while the negative electrode (cathode) has the opposite effect and calms activity in nearby neurons.
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The lithium-ion batteries described in the paper use lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, or NMC, for the battery's positive electrode (cathode) and artificial graphite for its negative electrode (anode).
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The company says this dry electrode technology, which can be applied to batteries of varying chemistries, boosts performance and is more cost-effective than the more commonly used wet electrode technology.
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In this case, the top electrode is a needle that delivers high voltage to the air just a few centimeters above a thin layer of oil on the other flat, grounded surface electrode.
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The opposite electrode, called the anode, holds negatively charged ions.
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However, that example is with an invasively implanted electrode array.
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At Walmart, Electrode is currently being used to run Walmart.
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On the rim of the glass are two electrode strips.
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Each electrode records voltage changes in the nerve cell nearest to it and transmits those changes to the top of the probe through a conductive channel (one per electrode) that acts like a wire.
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The team started working on Electrode around December of last year.
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WalmartLabs recently open sourced Electrode, the application platform that powers Walmart.com.
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Illustration showing how an electrode was inserted into the cingulum bundle.
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One electrode holds positively charged ions and is called the cathode.
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The gradient between the solutions causes negatively charged electrons to flow from the electrode with a lower proton concentration, the air side, to the electrode with the higher proton concentration, the carbon dioxide side, creating a current.
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The opposite electrode holds negatively charged ions and is called the anode.
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Consider testing how long an electrode can live functionally inside the brain.
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Traditional electrode manufacturing techniques require working with toxic chemicals and high temperatures.
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These charge and discharge when ions move from one electrode to the other.
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Keep in mind that right now, usually one electrode can record one neuron.
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"In a rechargeable battery, the electrode is a porous carbon material," he said.
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The electrode is connected to a battery that is embedded in the chest.
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"Each one of these squares is an electrode that's in her brain," one says.
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For one thing, when the electrode stimulator was turned off, Chinnock's paralysis was unaltered.
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One electrode, called the cathode, is made of lithium and holds positively charged electrons.
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An electrode-equipped sleeve is worn above the wrist, triggering the required muscle contractions.
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During the procedure, doctor implanted electrode wires in each woman's head, neck and shoulder.
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Cervantes pokes an electrode down into Kennedy's neural jelly and starts tugging at the wire.
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Analysts expect its July earnings alone to trump that figure as graphite electrode prices explode.
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Sometimes the scarring around the electrode implants makes it harder for the devices to work.
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CTRL-Labs is trying to perform the same functions with a simple electrode-studded wristband.
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The secret sauce is Maxwell's dry electrode technology, which is used to make the ultracapacitors.
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Electrode housing chamber where the first outer space tests for gravitational waves will take place.
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LISA Pathfinder's electrode housing chambers, where the positions of test masses will be precisely monitored.
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All Belcher needs are the electrode materials, room temperature water, and some genetically-engineered viruses.
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An electrode headset, he notes, would face similar problems — but they're serious issues for either system.
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With Electrode, the company's Walmart Labs division open sourced the React-based framework that powers Walmart.
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Brain surgeons implanted electrode arrays directly onto their brains, specifically the areas associated with language production.
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An electrode measures the electrical signals that nerves send to muscles to tell them to squeeze.
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Just as lightning strives to strike the ground, these ions want to hit their ground electrode.
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When the electrode was heated, it would shoot cathode rays across the chamber toward the sphere.
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This scar tissue partially or completely blocks the electric impulses which are normally able propagate without problems through gray matter, so the trick is figuring out how to implant an electrode without damaging neurons and thereby triggering the build up of scar tissue around the electrode.
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A microbe called Geobacter produces them, and the scientists placed a layer of the nanowire across a gold electrode with an area of about 25mm squared—a little bigger than an U.S. quarter—then placed another gold electrode on top of that to create a nanowire sandwich.
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An electrode placed directly in the brain might find that the rate of compression is even faster.
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One thread incorporates specks of a positively charged electrode, while the other weaves in negatively charged electrodes.
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For the device's electrode, they used carbon nanotubes developed at Harvard instead of the typical carbon grease.
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Working with untreated graphene retains the material's much lauded electrical conductivity — resulting in a significantly better electrode.
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For the experiment, the researchers implanted a multi-electrode array into the brains of two rhesus macaques.
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One major contribution by the university's researchers was the development of the Utah Slanted Electrode Array (USEA).
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Walmart's developers first used Electrode Native to update the shopping cart section of the Walmart mobile app.
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People were trying to come up with different solutions that is an electrode that you can bend.
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He said Neuralink chips would be 1,000 times as effective as other electrode-stimulating systems out there.
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Removal could be particularly challenging for Neuralink, because it's using remarkably thin electrode-holding "threads," Robinson said.
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Schwartz's old way of conducting research—probing an exposed brain with a single electrode—had to change.
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The electrode would essentially turn on, or off, the brain circuitry involved in those sensations and perceptions.
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Its flexibility comes thanks to the use of a conductive liquid electrode and a flexible rubber casing.
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She also had an electrode with a long cord taped to her face to capture facial convulsions.
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They connected the artificial fingertip to them via an electrode inserted into a nerve in their arm.
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When it was repeatedly charged, thin strands of metallic lithium would grow out from the negative electrode.
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This expansion is so dramatic that it can cause the electrode to bust out of its casing.
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When the battery is charging an electric potential pulls lithium ions into the recesses of a graphite-based electrode; when it is in use these ions migrate back through a liquid electrolyte to a much more complex electrode made of compounds containing lithium and other metals—the cathode.
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Machine learning algorithms learned to associate patterns of electrode measurements with a patients' likelihood of memorizing a word.
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The treatment consists of a small electrode that actively stimulates a cluster of nerve cells behind the nose.
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MIG welders work by feeding a sacrificial electrode made of wire through the nozzle of a welding torch.
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With the skull open and the brain exposed, Penfield would probe the brain's surface with a small electrode.
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To conscript the virus for electrode production, Belcher exposes it to the material she wants it to manipulate.
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The redesigned Apple Watch, by comparison, has an electrode embedded in the back as well as in its crown.
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BrainGate relied on the Utah Array, a series of stiff needles that allows for up to 128 electrode channels.
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This way, current travelling from one electrode to the other passes through more brain tissue than it otherwise would.
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In the process of this transition, the WalmartLabs team built Electrode, a React-based application platform to power Walmart.com.
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It's a tiny computer chip attached to ultrafine, electrode-studded wires, stitched into living brains by a clever robot.
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The signal is distorted by the layers of skin, bone and membrane that separate the brain from the electrode.
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This creates a circuit with an electrode on the back of the watch that's in contact with the skin.
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The electrolyte, which ferries lithium ions between the electrode terminals, consists of a lithium salt blended with other compounds.
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This essentially forms a cobalt oxide nanowire made of linked viruses that can be used in a battery electrode.
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On both watches you're essentially creating a closed circuit with your body and the watch acts as an electrode.
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The goal is to continue optimizing the electrode array and the neurostimulator, as well as the voice-activated user interface.
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Lead author Gopala Anumanchipalli holding an intracranial electrode of the type used to record brain activity in the new study.
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But in Ionic's material, they meet a clear path of organized crystals along which they "hop" to the other electrode.
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The array of 128 electrode sensors was placed on the part of the brain responsible for hand and arm movements.
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Then Schwartz carefully inserted a glass-coated electrode into the brain, to take readings while the monkey moved its arm.
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The BCI is an electrode array which penetrates the brain between one to one and a half millimeters, said Ajiboye.
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This breaks the bonds of water apart, with the hydrogen going to one electrode and the oxygen going to another.
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He then connected an Arduino to an Electrooculogram circuit board, which he routed to electrode patches attached to his face.
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GrafTech makes graphite electrode products used in electric arc furnaces to make steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
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Kilgard's treatment involves implanting a small electrode on a nerve in the neck that helps the brain interpret sensory stimuli.
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They sink down, forming a dimple in the oil that exposes the bottom electrode, allowing them to find their ground.
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If the electrode explodes out of its casing, it severs the connections that allow the batteries to distribute their power.
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When the battery is recharged they flow back to the anode, the negative electrode, which is normally made of graphite.
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SGL has warned that its operating income will fall markedly this year as prices at its graphite electrode business fall.
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A negatively charged surface — the counter electrode — will then draw the positive ions in, together with the fine dust particles.
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You attach little sticky electrode pads on the back of your ears and use them to hook in the little bits.
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And when the electrode positions were reversed, the scientists saw a corresponding decrease in measured creativity compared with the sham group.
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A diagram from the paper shows the device in an enclosure and with a prototype multi-electrode attachment (not for sale).
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They pinpointed a pair of main causes: a deflected negative electrode and a weld that penetrated insulators, separators, and insulation tape.
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"We got different responses from different (electrode) locations; some were sensitive to faces and some were sensitive to houses," Rao said.
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A third electrode, on the sole of the baby's foot, will measure his "galvanic skin response," or how much he's sweating.
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The software analyzed the brain signals in order to glean which electrode locations responded when a subject saw a particular image.
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EMS works by essentially "shocking" your muscles using electrode pads that micic the signal your brain sends to make muscles contract.
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The electrode array in question The electrode array in question See, it happens that the researchers know a certain pattern of brain activity that comes after you think of and arrange words (in cortical areas like Wernicke's and Broca's) and before the final signals are sent from the motor cortex to your tongue and mouth muscles.
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This resolution allowed the software to determine which combination of electrode locations and signals correlated best to what the patients were seeing.
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In addition to silicone, a non-metal electrode is used, which results in the triboelectric generator being flexible, stretchable, and extremely durable.
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It's gotten glowing reviews from testers, but in order to work, its electrode-lined fabric needs a direct connection with your body.
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The scientists created a tiny and very precise glass pipette with an opening of one micron in diameter that holds an electrode.
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Lithium-ion particles in the batteries move back and forth between a negative and positive electrode as they are charged and discharged.
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One of the most promising, MountainSort, improves the parsing of brain-electrode recordings, in part by automating the interpretation of the data.
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With your brains comfortably entangled in its electrode network, the NeurAlign sends evocative nerve impulses between you to determine your romantic potential.
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Over the past 30 years, voltage and electrode-capacity increases have improved the performance of lithium-ion batteries and lowered their cost.
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The website for the device states that mild skin irritation and electrode burns on the earlobes as well as headaches have occurred.
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Plastic tubes dangled from her nostrils, and the gown revealed bandaging taped to her stomach and electrode stickers glued to her chest.
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Its net-like surface is then covered in an array of electrodes, with each electrode registering the activity of around 10,000 neurons.
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At Stanford University, implanted electrode arrays inside paralyzed patients allow them to type with their thoughts at up to eight words per minute.
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The question here, says Bouton, is whether the electrode can still get a good signal by the time it goes through the blood.
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They found that by adding a bit of electric stimulation, the atoms diffuse through the electrode gap, like calcium ions between two neurons.
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Second, noninvasive systems require elaborate external electrode setups, while an implant can simply stay in place and "work all the time," he said.
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"Tesla needs Maxwell's solvent-free battery electrode manufacturing for a viable path to lower battery costs," said Craig Irwin of Roth Capital Partners.
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For instance, one study reported a case where a patient sustained permanent neurological damage when an MRI scan heated up a D.B.S. electrode.
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AliveCor said in a statement it uses advanced artificial intelligence, mobile, cloud and micro-electrode technology to change the dynamic in cardiac care.
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The success is due in part to Jaimie Henderson, a neurosurgeon at Stanford who implanted two tic-tac size electrode arrays in Degray's brain.
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But the traditional brain electrode implants used in much of this research had a major drawback: The signals they picked up were notoriously unstable.
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Microsoft made other adjustments to the pen technology including the new electrode near the tip that lets the operating system keep track of angle.
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In the medical realm, electrode arrays and other implants have been used to help ameliorate the effects of Parkinson's, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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His secret ingredient is nanoengineered particles of silicon, which can supercharge lithium-ion cells when they're used as the battery's negative electrode, or anode.
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Gene Berdichevsky, Sila's CEO, tells Axios that the company's anodes still swell, but that the structure of the electrode absorbs most of the expansion.
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When the battery is powering a device, ions shed their electrons and then drift through the electrolyte soup from one electrode to the other.
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Scientists Miguel Nicolelis and John Donoghue were among the first to control machines directly with thoughts through implanted probes, also known as electrode arrays.
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That's almost 30 percent of China's total capacity, she said, adding that Henan and Shandong provinces have restricted graphite electrode production by 20 percent.
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A brain implant consists of an electrode or a computer chip that senses some of these signals in order to communicate with a computer.
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This analyzer works by trapping charged molecules as they orbit around a spindle-like electrode, which produces a unique snapshot of the chemical involved.
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This 130-electrode device doesn't require additional surgery, and it provides stimulation to targeted muscles, causing them to contract (and no, it doesn't hurt).
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Then, when the program had learned the relevant associations, they used it to translate electrode signals into vocal-tract configurations, and thus into sound.
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"Electrode has improved performance of our apps and increased developer productivity, among other things," Alex Grigoryan, the director of engineering of WalmartLabs, told me.
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Also, in What You Seed is What You Get, Natasha's Electrode is shown to be as tall as an adult human in some scenes.
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These delusions didn't come out of nowhere: They were a result of an electrode placed deep into Mr. A's brain to treat his depression.
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The more his mother tries, the grumpier he gets, till he kicks his foot so hard that he jostles the electrode, disrupting the signal.
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China is expected to have graphite electrode capacity totalling 1.5 million tonnes by 2020, up 66.7 percent from 900,000 tonnes in 2017, said Sun.
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The Nobel organisation explained he used a carbon material, petroleum coke, in the anode (the positively charged electrode through which electrons leave a device).
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The positive electrode, or cathode, is coated in a carefully processed metal oxide slurry that in most cars includes lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese.
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This weekend, I'm working on [another sex device that's especially exciting], which is essentially a bunch of electrode pads that go on the lower back.
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With traditional deep-brain stimulation, the electrode implanted in the brain blocks these abnormal signals, which helps control the tremors for up to five years.
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But the doctors basically cut open my scalp, drilled a hole through my skull, and then placed the electrode on the surface of my brain.
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At setting three, I immediately felt a tingling in the electrode pad and started to feel a little disoriented and nauseated, like I was swaying.
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Tesla's battery issues may make expansion tough and expensive, even though Tesla recently bought Maxwell Technologies, a battery company known for its dry electrode technology.
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Encouragingly, multi-electrode arrays, though invasive (they have to be surgically implanted), are proving safe and durable in both non-human and human test subjects.
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Graphite electrode maker Tokai Carbon lost 6.6% on disappointing earnings due to slowing demand while rival manufacturer Showa Denko also dropped 2.4% following its earnings.
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Each electrode thread would be inserted using a precision robot in a procedure Musk said would be as safe and painless as LASIK eye surgery.
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Graphite electrode maker Tokai Carbon lost 6.6% on disappointing earnings due to slowing demand while rival manufacturer Showa Denko also dropped 2.4% following its earnings.
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In October, SGL Group said it would sell its graphite electrode business to Japanese chemicals firm Showa Denko for some 350 million euros ($384 million).
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Schwartz sees the potential in Neuralink's design, particularly its plans to miniaturize the components of the implant, make it wireless, and improve the electrode technology.
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" As Penfield moved the electrode over, S.B. found himself strolling through some neighborhood of his past, "I see the 286 Up bottling company, Harrison Bakery.
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These electrode arrays monitor brain activity and work to decode complex electrical signals fired by neurons in the motor cortex, the control center for body movement.
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For perspective on just how small this entire scene is, the distance between the ion and the electrode tips on either side is about two millimeters.
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Led by speech scientist Gopala Anumanchipalli, the experiment involved subjects who had already had large electrode arrays implanted in their brains for a different medical procedure.
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David Coates sat in his therapist's office holding a palm-sized electrode in each of his hands, describing the last time he ever saw his mother.
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This requires a small craniotomy in the back of the patient's head to place the electrode array against the visual cortex in the brain's occipital lobe.
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In their tiny, young larvae stages, she placed them in seawater — which oxygen levels she could control — and then stuck a small electrode into their eyes.
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Clusters of energy-producing cyanobacteria were attached to a typical button mushroom using 3D-printing technology, alongside an electrode network to harness the power they produce.
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The biggest surprise came when the researchers measured each eels electrical discharge — a delicate process that involved placing an electrode on each animal's head and tail.
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In lithium-ion batteries with organic electrolytes, some of the chemicals decompose into a solid, protective layer on the surface of the electrode during the first charge.
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But packing all these lithium ions into the electrode causes it to swell like a balloon; in some cases, it can grow up to four times larger.
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He made them fast until they were weak, drink his bathwater until they felt sick and wear electrode caps on their heads to jolt them into enlightenment.
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The manufacturers argue they need to protect margins due to high prices for imported needle coke, which accounts for 61 percent of the cost of electrode production.
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When chitin is heated up to 900℃ in the presence of nitrogen, it creates a nitrogen-doped carbon that could function as a battery's electrode, he explained.
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In the nineteen-sixties, José Delgado, a Spanish neuroscientist at Yale University, had designed a radio-controlled electrode that could be implanted deep inside an animal's brain.
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Its goal: to bypass his damaged spinal cord and, with the help of a signal decoder and electrode-packed sleeve, control his right arm with his thoughts.
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This allows for the "heterostructure" needed to craft functional transistors where graphene is able to act as an electrode tasked with injecting current into the molybdenum disulfide.
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The software also analyzed the data to determine which combination of electrode locations and signal types correlated best with what each subject actually saw in real time.
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Each had been implanted with one or two electrode arrays: stamp-size pads, containing hundreds of tiny electrodes, that were placed on the surface of the brain.
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In D.B.S., an electrode is threaded into a specific area of the brain that is being disruptive; stimulating it, paradoxically, knocks out activity in that specific region.
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Voltorb and Electrode are literally Poké Balls with faces, and their special ability is to blow themselves up in hopes of taking out their opponent with them.
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Indicated 0.1 percent higher The carbon specialist said it had decided to sell its graphite electrode unit and aimed for a deal by the end of the year.
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The team discovered that the droplet spreading and touching an aluminum electrode on the interface's surface joined previously disconnected parts of the interface and created a closed circuit.
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Electrode grids collected the man's brain signals and transmitted them to a decoding algorithm, which translated the signals into movements and commanded a robotic exoskeleton to complete them.
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Walmart uses open source software like the development platform Node, and it has opened up the code of its cloud management tool OneOps and its development platform Electrode.
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In the usual solid polymer electrolyte, lithium ions, while moving through the battery from one electrode to the other, collide with a jumble of molecules, slowing them down.
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For the second set of batteries, which were supplied by a different manufacturer and were put into the replacement units, Samsung found melted copper on the negative electrode area.
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"We cannot handle all enquiries due to the supply shortage," said a major Asian producer of graphite electrode that sells to South Korea, Japan, the United States and Europe.
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In China, nearly 300,000 tonnes of graphite electrode manufacturing capacity has been shuttered since the second half of 2016 due to environmental concerns, CRU's Brooks said in a report.
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The robot takes off and flies normally, but when the electrode patch is switched on, it can stick to almost any surface, including glass, wood, and even a leaf.
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The following year, J.J. Thomson worked out that "cathode rays" emitted into a vacuum by a negative electrode were electrically charged particles that weighed far less than any atom.
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In an unusual intervention, India's steel ministry is pushing for electrode makers to cut prices for smaller steelmakers after a 20 percent surge in domestic prices, sources told Reuters.
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India's electrode exports rose 71 percent over April-August last year, while shares of Graphite India Ltd rose nine-fold in 2017 and HEG Ltd shares jumped 15-fold.
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Furthermore, electrode manufacturers plan to raise prices again by as much as 20 percent during April-June, two company sources said, which would add further fuel to the dispute.
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The rooms were small and sterile, with little equipment except for computers and a few strange wires: an electrode to deliver shocks and nodes to measure the subjects' reactions.
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An electrode array recorded activity in parts of the brain associated with understanding and producing speech, looking for patterns that matched with specific words and phrases in real time.
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On reddit forums, people who've tried it (or want to) trade tips and tricks about tDCS, like "if you put this electrode here, you get this effect," she continued.
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Electrodes made from these latter materials often suffer from a partial or total loss of signal over time due to the formation of scar tissue from the electrode insertion.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is barring Japan's Showa Denko, which struck a deal to buy Germany's SGL Group's graphite electrode assets globally, from purchasing its U.S. business.
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Depending on what material a given company uses to solve its electrode problem, you could expect a folding screen to potentially lack the brightness you're accustomed to as well.
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In order to test them out, the team placed the brains on an electrode array and listened to the neuron's' spontaneous electrical activity as various test drugs were added.
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Non-invasive systems like electrode caps that pick up brain waves and transform them into tiny electric shocks that make the muscles contract have so far proven too cumbersome.
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Here's what you don't learn at middle school dances: If you need to know if someone loves you, an MRI scanner and some electrode sensors will clear things up.
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It's what happens when certain kinds of electrically charged particles travel between a pointy electrode and a flat one, but bump into a puddle of oil along the way.
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Its new polymer also has the ability to shuttle ions between a battery cathode and electrode as efficiently as is currently achieved by liquid electrolytes, or even more efficiently.
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The closure of cheaper but more polluting induction furnaces in June had pushed many Chinese to move toward EAFs, but the limited supply of graphite electrode has stalled those plans.
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" Musk said he'll do that with an "electrode-to-neuron interface at a micro level" — "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that will be "implanted in your skull.
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Now, though, researchers from University of California, Irvine have created electrode nanowires using a thin core of gold, surrounded by layers of manganese dioxide and a Plexiglas-like electrolyte gel.
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Colorado-based Cochlear's processors gather sound from the environment, turning it into an electrical signal and send it to an electrode implanted in the ears of people with hearing loss.
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Its electrode pads, which you can stick to any body part that needs soothing, deliver low-frequency currents to provide instant relief on stiff, sore, and damaged muscles and joints.
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There was one eight-month period during which I subjected myself to all sorts of painful tests, like an EMG, which sticks electrode needles into your muscles and shocks them.
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The wearable band produces an ECG reading when people who have it on a wrist place a finger from the opposite hand on an electrode on top of the band.
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For instance spike sorting, the ability to listen with a single electrode to lots of neurons at the same time and see all the different electrical impulses and de-convolve them.
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A processor captures sound, which is converted into electrical signals and sent to an electrode in the inner ear, stimulating the cochlear nerve so that sound is heard in the brain.
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Electrode provides developers with boilerplate code to build universal React apps that consist of a number of standalone modules that developers can choose to add more functionality to their Node apps.
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Utah Emeritus Distinguished Professor Richard A. Normann invented the Utah Slanted Electrode Array, a grouping of 100 microelectrodes and wires implanted in the forearm's nerves and connected to an external computer.
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A sensor dipped into a glass of real lemonade collects data on its acidity and color, which is transmitted via Bluetooth to silver electrode strips on the rim of a tumbler.
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In this case, the "brain-computer interface" (BCI) is a silicon electrode smaller than a pencil eraser that's surgically implanted in the portion of the participant's brain that controls limb movement.
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Maxwell executives told investors in January that it had developed and patented a "dry electrode" technology that could significantly increase the driving range and reduce the cost of electric vehicle batteries.
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Neuralink is working on a system that will connect the human brain to machines by implanting hundreds of electrode "threads", thinner than strands of hair, into the brain, using a surgical robot.
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The carbon specialist incurred impairment charges of about 75-85 million euros in its so-called performance product segment due to pricing pressures in the graphite electrode market, SGL said on Thursday.
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Electrode is meant to help internal developers get applications to market faster and help them stick to a consistent structure that follows the best practices the company developed for its own teams.
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But the steep run-up in electrode prices has squeezed India's smaller steel producers, prompting the Steel Ministry to set up a meeting with producers and the steel industry on Jan. 15.
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"A 14-mm hole was made in the skull and a specialized electrode was passed into the brain under local anesthesia," Sharan Srinivasan, a stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon at the hospital, said.
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Yes, but: Substituting cobalt in a rechargeable battery is not a simple switch, as alternative battery chemistries do not yet attain the same energy and power performance as a cobalt-containing electrode.
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SGL has been seeking a buyer for its graphite-electrode business, which has struggled since Chinese semi-finished steel became cheap enough to compete with scrap, sending demand for recycling equipment plunging.
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A spokesman for SGL declined to say whether ChemChina was a possible buyer for the graphite electrode business but said that SGL was not seeking to sell the group as a whole.
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The neurologist performed a nerve-conduction study, during which a tiny electrode, inserted into the muscle, measures the electrical impulses the nerve fibers send to the brain when the muscle is working.
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"Our analysis showed the main cause for the incidents was deflections in the negative electrodes," he said, adding incorrect positioning of the negative electrode tip also led to a higher likelihood of incidents.
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A 16-electrode device used for pain control and not designed to help paralyzed patients walk was then implanted between a bone in their spine and the spinal cord, below the damaged area.
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That implant receives the signal wirelessly, translates it into an electrical current and passes it down a wire, past the biological machinery of the ear, to an electrode embedded in the auditory nerve.
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Electrode is a modular platform that helps improve application performance, and Walmart is open sourcing the software to give back to the open source world and benefit from additional contributions from the community.
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As China tightened the screws last year on polluting industrial plants, about 30 percent of its graphite electrode production has been shut, leading to an explosion in global prices and benefiting manufacturers elsewhere.
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To back up its request, the government has inserted a provision in its latest budget that would allow it to impose an export tariff rate as high as 20 percent on electrode makers.
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Not only does it measure position, the system computes the distance from the finger to each electrode (called the Phase) and uses that information to continuously tracks the finger's motion in real time.
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Mr. A qualified for an experimental treatment called deep brain stimulation, when an electrode is implanted into the brain to release electricity, and can target certain areas of the brain in different ways.
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FRANKFURT, June 17 (Reuters) - German carbon specialist SGL Group has attracted interest for its graphite electrode unit from a company held by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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In treating depression, surgeons thread an electrode into an area of the brain that sits beneath the crown of the head and is known to be especially active in people with severe depression.
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Using the surrounding water as an electrode to capture and distribute electrical energy, the self-powered machine treads water twice as fast as similar robots and can function in a range of water temperatures.
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As China tightened the screws on polluting industrial plants, about 2500 percent of its graphite electrode production capacity has been shut and some provinces have restricted output, said Dawn Brooks, a consultant at CRU.
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The Medtronic system includes a glucose meter (an electrode under the skin), an insulin pump strapped to the body and an infusion patch connected to the pump, with a tiny catheter for delivering insulin.
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It was in this work he discovered a material rich in energy that he used to create what's known as a cathode (a type of electrode through which electrons move) inside a lithium battery.
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In their experiments, the biologists first identified groups of face cells in a macaque monkey's brain by magnetic resonance imaging, and then probed individual face cells with a fine electrode that records their signals.
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She showed video of a woman from a Stanford research experiment who could type eight words per minute using a small electrode implanted into her brain to move a computer cursor over a keyboard.
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