Microstimulate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To stimulate individual nerve cells using a small electric current.

    "We trained rhesus monkeys to categorize disparity-defined 3D shapes and examined AIP's contribution to 3D-shape categorization by microstimulating in clusters of 3D-shape selective AIP neurons during task performance."

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"We trained rhesus monkeys to categorize disparity-defined 3D shapes and examined AIP's contribution to 3D-shape categorization by microstimulating in clusters of 3D-shape selective AIP neurons during task performance."

Etymology

From micro- + stimulate.

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electric currentnerve cell

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