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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·April 17, 2023·7 min read

          Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?

          A new study that examined people without somatosensation reveals direct sensory experience is not required to understand or use abstract metaphors or language about sensations.
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          ·February 13, 2023·4 min read

          Study May Help to Explain Smell Challenges in Individuals With Autism

          Study sheds light on why some people with autism experience aversion to certain smells and the neural mechanisms that underlie olfactory processing in those with ASD.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 24, 2023·5 min read

          Neurons That “Learn” to Smell a Threat

          Researchers reveal how the olfactory system aids in threat assessment and have identified neurons that learn whether a specific smell represents a threat.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·January 23, 2023·5 min read

          Chicory, Surrogate and Roasted Coffee Provide New Insights Into Mechanisms of Taste Perception

          The bitter compounds of chicory exhibit a receptor activation profile that overlaps with roasted coffee compounds, resulting in a similar taste profile. However, the impact on three taste receptors differs between the substances.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 23, 2023·8 min read

          Origins of Pleasurable Touch Traced From Skin to Brain

          Study reveals a skin-to-brain neural circuit that responds to rewarding forms of social touch. Researchers say the findings could provide an avenue for harnessing the power of touch to assist in treating social and emotional disorders.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 15, 2023·5 min read

          Why Chocolate Feels So Good: It Is All Down to Lubrication

          Researchers have decoded the sensory processing mechanisms that make the sensation of eating chocolate so irresistible to most people.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·September 22, 2022·4 min read

          Attention and Running Influence Individual Brain Cells Independently

          Spatial attention and running influence individual neurons independently with different dynamics.
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          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
          ·June 22, 2022·4 min read

          Scientists Identify Sensor Underlying Mechanical Itch Stimulus

          Study identifies a specific protein in sensory neurons that detects mechanical itch stimuli such as an insect crawling on the skin or when one touches an object that irritates the skin.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·April 7, 2022·3 min read

          What Shaking a Container Can Teach Us About Touch

          Study sheds light on the human ability to understand how an object moves inside a container, revealing how different kinds of information can be conveyed via the sense of touch.
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          ·March 20, 2022·5 min read

          Researchers Map Human Sensory Neurons, Pursue Chronic Pain Cure

          Study reveals how the origins of pain are generated by nociceptors in the dorsal root ganglia.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·March 12, 2022·5 min read

          If You Love ASMR You Might Be More Sensitive

          People who enjoy ASMR have heightened sensory sensitivity, a new study reports. Many people who react positively to ASMR also experience higher levels of bodily awareness, greater sensitivity to bodily sensations, and often are easily overstimulated by their environment.
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          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
          ·February 23, 2022·6 min read

          Gene Allowing Humans to Feel Touch May Play a Role in Sense of Smell

          A gene commonly associated with the sense of touch may also play an important role in the sense of smell, researchers report.
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