microstimulate

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ stimulate.

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

     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.

Related terms

• microstimulation
• microstimulus