spontaneous activity

collocation in English

meaningsofspontaneousandactivity

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spontaneous
adjective
uk
/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us
/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The origin ofspontaneousactivityin developing networks of vertebrate nervous system.
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In addition, we tested whether network interactions modulated the temporal pattern ofspontaneousactivity.
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However, the suppression of evoked activity is much greater (approximately 100 impulses 0s) than the suppression of thespontaneousactivity.
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Spontaneousactivityof morphologically identified ganglion cells in the developing ferret retina.
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Competition in retinogeniculate patterning driven byspontaneousactivity.
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Here, we used calcium imaging of dissociated retinal neurons as a measure ofspontaneousactivity.
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Alternatively, this could simply be a reduction inspontaneousactivitydue to a recruitment of the neurons for stimulus processing without implying any specific ordering.
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Developmentally regulatedspontaneousactivityin the embryonic chick retina.
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Note that at 0.9% isoflurane the cell exhibited significantspontaneousactivitywith a further increase in firing rate during the stimulus.
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Each pass included an independent measure ofspontaneousactivity.
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Here and in subsequent figures,spontaneousactivityhas been subtracted, and error bars indicate standard errors.
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The cell is only inhibited by weaker stimuli but responds with an early excitation followed by inhibition of thespontaneousactivitywith stronger stimuli.
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The scores were obtained by first determining if the cell was more active during fixation or during the period from whichspontaneousactivitywas taken.
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Also, we did not encounter any cell for whichspontaneousactivitywas significantly increased following conditioning.
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In this study, we characterized the proper ties of thespontaneousactivityin acutely isolated bipolar cells from rat retinas with patch-clamp recordings.
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Much recent evidence indicates thatspontaneousactivityduring prenatal development can play a role in structuring neural circuits.
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He sees brain dynamics as characterized by dynamic transients,spontaneousactivityand timevarying inputs, rather than by attractors selected by constant input patterns.
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A cell was defined as responding to a single direction when the response to the opposite direction of movement was indistinguishable from thespontaneousactivity.
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Recording ofspontaneousactivitywith photoetched microelectrode surfaces from mouse spinal neurons in culture.
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The effect of indomethacin onspontaneousactivityin the isolated human myometrium and on the response to oxytocin and prostaglandin.
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