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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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.