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This video provides a demonstration of how nerve-muscle connectivity is measured.
Neuroscientist Thomas Jessel explains that motor neurons form functional connections with specific target muscles and can activate the muscles in a coordinated manner. He then demonstrates how scientists can measure muscles flexing and extending by recording electrical signals in the muscles.
This animation is a clip from a 2008 Holiday Lecture Series, Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory.
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demonstration, electric potential, electrode, electromyography (EMG), neuron, neuronal signaling, neuroscience, nerve, synapse, technology
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