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sensory perception

·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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·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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·November 7, 2021·3 min read

How Thick Is a Soup? Logarithmic Perception and How We Perceive Liquid Thickness

We perceive the thickness of liquid food based on logarithmic stimuli, in a similar way to which we perceive visual or auditory information.

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·November 3, 2021·2 min read

How Does the Brain Create Our Perception of Reality?

Researchers shed light on how sensory information and cognitive processing interact in the brain to produce our perception of the world around us.

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·October 20, 2021·3 min read

How an Enriched Environment Fires up Our Synapses

Post-genomic analysis of the regulation of synapses in a rodent hippocampus sheds new light on the interaction of proteins and lipids within the synaptic membrane.

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·October 3, 2021·4 min read

Fruit Flies React to Smells While Asleep

Study reveals how the drosophila brain subconsciously processes salient information, such as odors, that require interpretation while asleep.

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·September 7, 2021·6 min read

Massage Stones Help Uncover Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Sensory Perception

Findings shed new light on the role the prefrontal cortex plays in sensory processing and perception.

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·August 3, 2021·4 min read

Our Brains Perceive Our Environment Differently When We’re Lying Down

When we lie down, our brains decrease reliance on information related to the external world and increase reliance on internal perceptions generated by the sense of touch.

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·May 7, 2021·5 min read

How We Retrieve Our Knowledge About the World

Our concepts of people, objects, and events are composed of sensory impressions and actions associated with them, in addition to abstract symbol-like features.

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·April 14, 2021·4 min read

See Before You Smell: Why You Should Look At Your Food Before Casting Judgment

Researchers say the order in which your senses interact with food items impacts how much you enjoy your meal.

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·March 15, 2021·3 min read

Fingerprints Enhance Our Sense of Touch

Sensory neurons in the fingertips are able to detect tactile stimuli at the scale of a single fingerprint ridge.

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·July 22, 2020·6 min read

Mapping the Brain’s Sensory Gatekeeper

Mapping the thalamic reticular nucleus, researchers have identified two distinct subnetworks of neurons with different functions. Findings offer insight into more specific targets for therapeutics to alleviate some sensory, sleep, and attention symptoms associated with ASD and other disorders characterized by sensory hypersensitivity.