The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information.

In essence, the cells built a rudimentary sensory system from scratch. To test the model, the team used capsaicin — the molecule that gives chili peppers their burn. Just as it does in your ...

The somatosensory system consists of the peripheral receptors ... How learned associations of sensory sequences can influence subsequent processing remains unclear. Here the authors show that ...

The auditory system is the sensory system for hearing. It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ...