Whether primary sensory cortices are essentially multisensory or whether they respond to only one sense is an emerging debate in neuroscience. Here we use a multivariate pattern analysis of functional ...

Regardless of whether we are sitting in a loud aeroplane or walking through a quiet forest clearing, how humans perceive their environment depends on the stimuli. This, in turn, affects our behaviour ...

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a team of UCLA researchers has shown for the first time that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are overly sensitive to sensory stimuli have ...

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different senses and shift our attention from one ...

The type and intensity of stimuli control the activity of nerve cells that release the neurotransmitter dopamine, report scientists. Regardless of whether we are sitting in a loud aeroplane or walking ...

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 ...

Over the course of their lives, animals form associations between sensory stimuli and predicted threats or rewards. These associations can, in turn, shape the behaviors of animals, prompting them to ...

Sleep is a complex neurological state that humans don't have much control over. However, the brain can be conditioned to get there quickly and peacefully by developing the right sleep environment ...

A research team says it has shown for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals’ cortex and responded to external sensory ...

Children experiencing sensory difficulties may react in ways that are viewed as problematic because of the hidden quality of their challenges. Thus, it is crucial to understand that environmental and ...