Researchers at Leipzig University’s Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

Cortical Interneurons Show Layer-Specific Activities. Researchers examine the firing patterns of interneurons throughout all layers of the somatosensory cortices of alert mice.

The research found that women who had more sex had thicker parts of the somatosensory cortex. “It’s completely understudied, how the female genitals are represented in the somatosensory cortex ...

The passage of time is sensed, perceived, and experienced, but—unlike for touch, vision, hearing, and olfaction—there exist no sensory receptors for time. This fact has long tantalized ...

Sergio Parra, Héctor Díaz, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Jerónimo Zizumbo, Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Sebastián Pujalte, Lucas Bayones, Ranulfo Romo, Román Rossi-Pool, Hierarchical unimodal processing ...

The brain’s somatosensory cortex may help enrich our emotional experiences and improve our mental health. Mindfulness and dance movement therapy may be effective ways to activate it.

The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this ...