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microstimulated

microstimulated is the simple past and past participle of microstimulate.

Meaning of microstimulate

Verb

microstimulate (third-person singular simple present microstimulates, present participle microstimulating, simple past and past participle microstimulated)

  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.2015 August 22, “Effects of Microstimulation in the Anterior Intraparietal Area during Three-Dimensional Shape Categorization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about microstimulated

What is microstimulated the simple past and past participle of?
Microstimulated is the simple past and past participle of microstimulate.

Words near microstimulated in the dictionary

  1. microsthenes
  2. microsthenic
  3. microstigmatid
  4. microstigmatids
  5. microstimulate
  6. microstimulated
  7. microstimulates
  8. microstimulating
  9. microstimulation
  10. microstimulations
  11. microstimulator

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