Uncovering complexity in simple worm: Sensory input to motor output in one worm neuron Date: November 21, 2012 Source: Harvard University Summary: C. elegans, with just 302 neurons, has long been ...

Each multisensory neuron in the model receives inputs from primary neurons of each sensory modality, as denoted by a subscript (1 or 2). The multisensory neuron performs a weighted linear sum of ...

They have as many types of odorant receptors as the number of sensory neurons -- namely, 21. This one-to-one correspondence makes it simple to test what each neuron is doing.

Scientists have for the first time established a sensory neuron model able to mass-reproduce two key sensory neuron types involved in pain sensation, enabling the easy generation of large numbers ...

The same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk toward the smell of rotting fruit and speed up, according to new research from ...

How do we manage to remember smells despite the fact that each olfactory sensory neuron only survives for about 60 days and is then replaced by a new cell?

It is known that certain sensory neurons only transmit “pleasant tactile” sensations, such as soft touch, whereas other neuron types are responsible for transmitting pain.

The team analyzed the data, tracking each neuron's activity over the course of the game to determine how much it participated in sensory vs. categorical work, accounting for the possibility that ...