But weakly electric fish probe their environment using pulses or waves of electricity.
One of the most important standards is aimed at maintaining a constant frequency in the waves of electricity pulsing through the system.
Crank it up to the second level and things get a bit more serious, as waves of electricity seem to surge through your forehead, causing it to become numb (apparently this means it is working).
"Waves of electricity, emanating from pop art facades, actually transforming the nature of the atmosphere, creating a mutation of night, a night that is not night – daytime at night," he writes.
Kounios, a man with a shock of unruly wavy hair and an affinity for rumpled button-up vests, had been working with electroencephalography, or EEG, which measures the waves of electricity produced by the brain by means of a nylon hat filled with greased electrodes.
Unfortunately, the waves of electricity can't be traced back to their precise source, but Kounios and Jung-Beeman saw that combining EEG with fMRI might allow them to construct a precise map, both in time and space, of the insight process.
When the crustaceans crash out, their brains emit slow waves of electricity surprisingly similar to those seen in the brains of slumbering mammals.
After getting up, he couldn't stop shaking from the pulsing waves of electricity, he said.
Conductivity is an important aspect of nerve tissue engineering considering that neural signals are propagated along nerve cells via electrical charges and therefore the polymers that are used to regenerate these tissues must be capable of transmitting waves of electricity.
