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·April 22, 2022·5 min read

Interacting Brain Waves Key to How We Process Information

Study reveals the different ways the brain parses information through interactions of waves of neural activity.

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·April 20, 2022·5 min read

Feeling Sensations, Including Ones Connected to Sadness, May Be Key to Depression Recovery

Suppressing or blocking out physical sensations related to emotions such as sadness can hinder recovery from depression symptoms and may cause a relapse into depression.

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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 13, 2022·10 min read

Memory May Alter How We Perceive the Visual and Auditory Information We Encounter

New research focuses on how memory can impact the perception of auditory and visual information.

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·March 4, 2022·6 min read

Autism Correlated With Changing Sensory Preferences During Early Childhood

Sensory patterns of children on the autism spectrum, and those who had ASD traits but were not diagnosed, grew stronger over time.

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·March 3, 2022·4 min read

The Stuff of Thought Is the Stuff of Experience

Conceptual knowledge is tied to perceptual and experiential information.

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·February 3, 2022·4 min read

Anxiety and Neuroticism Linked to Ability to Experience ASMR

ASMR could serve as an intervention for those with elevated levels of neuroticism and anxiety, a new study finds.

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·January 31, 2022·5 min read

Perception Study May Explain Promising Depression Therapy

Study demonstrates the importance of a specific type of connection between neurons and may also explain how ketamine shows promise in treating depression.

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·November 29, 2021·4 min read

Which Side Is Which? How the Brain Perceives Borders

Neurons in deep layers of the brain's cortex are the first to decipher which side of a visual border is an object and which side is the background.

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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 5, 2021·6 min read

This Touchy-Feely Glove Senses and Maps Tactile Stimuli

A new touch-sensing glove can feel pressure and other tactile stimuli, researchers report. The glove has applications for those with motor function disorders and could be adapted from virtual reality gaming experiences.

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·June 9, 2021·4 min read

Eating Soft Foods May Alter the Brain’s Control of Chewing

Rats fed either a diet of soft or hard foods showed differences in jaw activity and muscle control when a chewing-related region of the brain was stimulated. Findings reveal the anterior cortical masticatory area strongly influences the regulation of chewing and is influenced by sensory input during development.

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sensory processing

Interacting Brain Waves Key to How We Process Information

Feeling Sensations, Including Ones Connected to Sadness, May Be Key to Depression Recovery

What Shaking a Container Can Teach Us About Touch

Memory May Alter How We Perceive the Visual and Auditory Information We Encounter

Autism Correlated With Changing Sensory Preferences During Early Childhood

The Stuff of Thought Is the Stuff of Experience

Anxiety and Neuroticism Linked to Ability to Experience ASMR

Perception Study May Explain Promising Depression Therapy

Which Side Is Which? How the Brain Perceives Borders

Massage Stones Help Uncover Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Sensory Perception

This Touchy-Feely Glove Senses and Maps Tactile Stimuli

Eating Soft Foods May Alter the Brain’s Control of Chewing

Why Cannabis Can Suddenly Trigger Panic

Can an AI Ever Truly Be “Conscious” in the Eyes of Humans?

Comparing Current Appearance to Past Selves Harms Body Image

Optical Illusion Exposes Blind Spot in AI Vision

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