neural impulse
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈnʊrəl ˈɪmpʌls/
- Specialized
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impulso neural
- In the darkness that followed, I felt a sharp needling pressure at the base of my skull as Pangborn inserted the probes that would reroute my neural impulses to the broadband transmitter.
It's the place where you transduce incoming sound into neural impulses.
- It's the place where you transduce incoming sound into neural impulses.
Examples
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As neural insulation, myelin prevents neural impulses from leaking away from the axon. A useful analogy might be the insulation around a hot water pipe.
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When a person touches something hot, neural impulses quickly convey the pain signal to the brain.
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Mental events work by the transmission of neural impulses.
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The question is how is the electrical or the neural impulse generated inside a neuron?
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So you're turning neural impulses into computer data.
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Others are controlled by neural impulses or brain waves, the same way real limbs are.
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There, which as you know, transmits neural impulses of pain and vibratory sense to the brain.
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I want the limiting factor in reaction times to be "how fast can you accelerate your limbs or digits without damaging them," not the speed of neural impulses.
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According to Contreras-Vidal, the major way in which his work differs from other research is that it focuses on the lowest frequencies of the neural impulses of the brain to decipher those associated with motion.
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Since the inner ear derives its energy primarily from blood glucose, it seems reasonable that deviations in blood glucose levels in the presence of an abnormally functioning inner ear may provoke neural impulses and thus clinical symptoms.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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6.1
An electrical signal that travels along a nerve to send information
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4.9
An electrical signal that travels along a nerve to carry messages in the body
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5.8
An electrical message that travels along a nerve to carry information
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an electrical signal that travels along a nerve fiber' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'neural' (connected to nerves) with 'impulse' (a signal or sudden force/action). This is a straightforward noun-noun technical composition found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Neural impulse puts together neural (about nerves) and impulse (a sudden push), so you can picture a little 'push' or 'spark' moving along a nerve like a message on a wire. That's why it means the tiny electrical signal that travels along nerve fibers to carry information.