Signal
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If a grouper chases a fish into a crevice in the coral, it will sometimes go to where it knows a moray eel is sleeping and it will
signal
to the moray, "Follow me," and the moray will understand that
signal.
But how likely is it that they will manage to find a
signal?
If SETI succeeds in detecting a
signal
in the near future, after examining only a small portion of the stars in the Milky Way, then we learn that L, on average, must be large.
Have you ever been cut off in a parking lot,
signal
light on as you steer toward your coveted spot, only to slam on your brakes at the last minute as someone pulls in front of you and steals your spot away?
How could he not see my
signal
light?
Once at the surface, I have 15 seconds to take off my nose clip, give this
signal
and say (English) "I am OK." Plus, you need to be bilingual.
Or it may
signal
a committed struggle against obstacles.
When you see a color, each cone sends its own distinct
signal
to your brain.
You don't have a cone specifically for detecting yellow, but yellow is kind of close to green and also kind of close to red, so both the red and green cones get activated, and each sends a
signal
to your brain saying so.
The point is, your brain receives the same signal, regardless of whether you see light that has the yellow frequency or light that is a mixture of the green and red frequencies.
You only have one kind of rod cell, and so there is one type of
signal
that can get sent to your brain: light or no light.
For example, an individual working for the government uses a wireless device to send a
signal
to another foreign leader's pacemaker.
Once they are triggered, the
signal
travels through a bundle called the olfactory tract to destinations all over your brain, making stops in the amygdala, the thalamus, and the neocortex.
Letting just a small proportion of cells
signal
at any one time, known as sparse coding, uses the least energy, but carries the most information.
The superhighway that carries pain information from the spinal cord to the brain is our sensing pathway that ends in the cortex, a part of the brain that decides what to do with the pain
signal.
Since pain can have serious consequences, the pain
signal
immediately activates the salience network.
And especially with sugar, our bodies send a
signal
to our brain that says, "Remember what you're eating and where you found it."
Bits could also be packed closer together thanks to mathematical algorithms that filter out noise from magnetic interference, and find the most likely bit sequences from each chunk of read-back
signal.
First, your brain sends a
signal
to motor neurons inside your arm.
The bigger the challenge becomes, the bigger the brain's
signal
grows, and the more motor units it rallies to help you achieve your task.
As the
signal
travels through the network, the arm neurons pick up the message and jump into action to command the movement.
Researchers theorize that certain memory processes can happen only when we are asleep, and our dreams are a
signal
that these processes are taking place.
At first detection of low water levels, sensory receptors in the brain's hypothalamus
signal
the release of antidiuretic hormone.
If you connect a few neurons together into a simple circuit, you can generate rhythmic patterns of activity, feedback loops that ramp up or shut down a signal, coincidence detectors, and disinhibition, where two inhibitory neurons can actually activate another neuron by removing inhibitory brakes.
I looked at people in this database who were on two drugs, and I looked for signals similar, glucose-changing signals, for people taking two drugs, where each drug alone did not change glucose, but together I saw a strong signal."
A reflex
signal
travels back to your bladder, making the detrusor muscle contract slightly and increasing the bladder's pressure so you're aware that it's filling up.
The brain can counter it if it's not a good time to urinate by sending another
signal
to contract the external urethral sphincter.
But under normal circumstances, your decision to urinate stops the brain's
signal
to the external urethral sphincter, causing it to relax and the bladder to empty.
For them, weakness and tiredness may be the main
signal.
These dedicated nerves produce a molecule called natriuretic polypetide B, which triggers a
signal
that's carried up the spinal cord to the brain, where it creates the feeling of an itch.
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