How The Sensory-deprived Brain Compensates Date: April 17, 2007 Source: Carnegie Mellon University Summary: Whiskers provide a mouse with essential information.

Hearing, sight, touch - our brain captures a wide range of distinct sensory stimuli and links them together. The brain has a kind of built-in filter function for this: sensory impressions are only ...

Some groups of neurons process sensory data and memories at the same time. New work shows how the brain pivots those representations to prevent interference.

The discovery provides new insight into clinical conditions where body representation in the brain is disrupted due to changes in the central or peripheral nervous systems e.g. stroke ...

If the brain can’t get signals from part of its body–perhaps due to a birth defect that leads to the loss of a limb, say, or due to nerve damage–the sensory map will develop abnormally.

Sensory information is encoded by populations of neurons. The responses of individual neurons are inherently noisy, so the brain must interpret this information as reliably as possible. In most ...

This was one of the first demonstrations of cross-sensory influences on an area of the brain thought to be dedicated to a single sense. More recent studies have contributed further evidence of ...

Yet how the brain manages to filter sensory stimuli to let only the most important pass into conscious noticing is a long-standing mystery in neuroscience — but a discovery made earlier this ...

The brain can do a lot to compensate; but as we’ve seen, it can come at a cost, something that science is still working hard to fully understand. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED Discuss (0 CommentS) ...

While we usually only learn about five senses in school (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell), the brain processes sensory information from many other parts of the body, she said.

“My brain exploded, because I was so excited to see [the room],” Josh said. He said the sensory room makes him feel calm, ...

A pair of researchers showed that, to represent current and past stimuli simultaneously without mutual interference, the brain essentially “rotates” sensory information to encode it as a memory. The ...