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microstimulate

verb

Etymology

From micro- + stimulate.

  1. borrowed from stimulātus
  2. prefixed as microstimulate — “micro + stimulate”

Definitions

  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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