A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes ...

From a young age, she knew she loved biology, and her family relationships with children placed in foster care made her question how environmental triggers such as stress and trauma can influence ...

So you can see how giving children all of that sensory information helps them learn words more easily. When your child experiences a word with more than one of their senses, their brain will ...

Not all sensory input is shut off ... tanks can shift into altered states of consciousness, in which the brain experiences a dream-like state without actually being asleep. People who entered ...

Maunsell and co-author Supriya Ghosh, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher, focus their studies on how neurons in different areas ...

These connections link together its various lobes and also link sensory input and motor output with the brain’s message centers, allowing information to come in and be sent back out. One major ...

"While it is well-established that the immune system can 'remember' pathogens through adaptive immunity, it remained unclear how the brain could form associative memories linking sensory ...

Helene Intraub, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The world is continuous, but sensory input is not. We perceive a coherent ...

What is a sensory weaver? [Curiosiate] tells us: “A device which takes sensory data feeds in and converts it in various ways on the body as information streams as though a native sensory input.” ...