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microstimulating

microstimulating is the present participle and gerund 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 microstimulating

What is microstimulating the present participle and gerund of?
Microstimulating is the present participle and gerund of microstimulate.

Words near microstimulating in the dictionary

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

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