FeaturedNeuroscience·March 3, 2021·3 min readDietary Fats Interact With Grape Tannins to Influence Wine TasteStudy reveals how lipids interact with grape tannins, masking the unfavorable taste of certain wine compounds and altering taste perception.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 16, 2021·8 min readHow the Human Brain May Tap Into Visual Cues When Lacking a Sense of TouchStudy of people who are unable to feel touch reveals surprising new details about how we unconsciously embody our physical selves.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 10, 2021·4 min readHow the Brain Makes Sense of TouchStudy identifies specific neurons that help activate sensory processing in nearby nerve cells. The findings suggest ways the brain integrates signals essential for tactile perception and learning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 15, 2020·5 min readHow the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral DecisionsResearchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.Read More
AutismFeatured·September 25, 2020·4 min readResearch Challenges Conventional Wisdom About Key Autism TraitSensorimotor problems associated with ASD are caused by several complex and precise neurobiological processes, including differences in the way those with autism perceive the world around them.Read More
FeaturedNeurology·July 20, 2020·3 min readOlder Adults Who Can Really Smell the Roses May Face Lower Likelihood of DementiaOlder adults with a higher ability to process sensations, including vision, olfaction, hearing, and touch, had half the risk of being diagnosed with cognitive decline than their peers who were less capable at sensory processing tasks.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 12, 2020·2 min readHow the brain responds to the sudden sound of silent dangerStudy provides insight into the neural mechanisms of how prey animals use the sounds or actions of others to infer danger and respond defensively.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·March 9, 2020·2 min readSensory information underpins abstract knowledgeNeuroimaging reveals our brains combine information from different categories of sensory information to drive abstract knowledge.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·February 10, 2020·3 min readSensory perception is not superficial brain workWhen exposed to auditory stimulation, visual areas of the brain decreased in activity. Findings suggest sound can strongly draw attention away from what we are looking at.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·December 16, 2019·2 min readThe effect of taking antidepressants during pregnancyExposure to antidepressants during the first few weeks of pregnancy has long term implications for sensory processing in the offspring.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·December 2, 2019·3 min readDecision-making process becomes visible in the brainStudy tracks how and where zebrafish brains transform the movement of the environment into a decision that causes the fish to swim in a specific direction.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·October 2, 2019·4 min readThe propensity to hear ‘voices’ in Schizophrenia may be established by infancyPeople with schizophrenia who experience auditory hallucinations have greater activation in specific areas of the auditory cortex in response to sound frequencies. The mapping of sound frequency in the auditory cortex is scrambled in those with schizophrenia, suggesting a disruption in the normal processes for organized sound representation in the brain. As the tonotopic map is established during infancy and remains stable throughout life, the findings suggest vulnerability for auditory hallucinations is linked to defects in the organization of the auditory system during infantile development. This precedes speech development and the onset of psychiatric symptoms.Read More
