Sensory systems include the parts of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information, including the visual system, auditory system, olfactory system, somatosensory system ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our ...

The brain processes 10 bits per second, much slower than sensory input. Early brains evolved for survival, limiting human ...

For each modality, some examples of sensory systems that use that modality are provided. Akesson, S. & Backman, J. Orientation in pied flycatchers: The relative importance of magnetic and visual ...

Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make ...

Our multidisciplinary and innovative approach to neuroscience research allows us to explore how sensory inputs are detected and processed by the nervous system in health and disease. The sensory ...

The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation ...

Overstimulation occurs when our senses are overwhelmed by excessive stimuli such as noise light or emotional stress An expert ...

When the sensory receptors in the nervous system malfunction, as they’re theorized to do in SPD, common stimuli like lights, noises, and textures may be perceived as too bright, too loud ...

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...

The primary mission of the WSBC is to foster and conduct high-quality scientific research that advances the understanding of our sensory systems and disorders related to them. A major role of the ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Plasticity in Sensory-Motor Systems ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 5 (November 1965), p. 84 doi:10.1038 ...