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In other words, when incoming visual signals are reduced, the brain compensates by pulling stored images and experiences from memory.
From Science Daily
Participants then spent the night in the lab while researchers recorded their brain activity and other physiological signals using polysomnography.
From Science Daily
The presence of the US president's son-in-law Jared Kushner at the last talks in early February has been seen by Iran as a positive signal of greater US engagement.
From BBC
Others have tracked attendance at political gatherings, parsing changes in seating arrangements or unexplained absences that can signal a disturbance in an official’s career trajectory.
In 1877, Berliner, then working with Edison, created the first “telephone voice transmitter,” a device that used a vibrating metal diaphragm to convert sound waves into electrical signals for transmission over telephone lines.
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