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Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.
Your feet can send a lot of sensory information to your brain. But whether you believe that your footwear is affecting your cognition may matter more than what shoes you wear.
The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sound.
Scientists are learning amazing things about bees’ sensory perception and mental capabilities.
Learning that our brains process information differently when we’re standing up or lying down has implications for how we study and assess brain function.
Neuroscientists tackling the age-old question of whether perceptions of color hold from one person to the next are coming up with some interesting answers.
Rather than putting on a ‘brave face’, parents might be better putting on a ‘brave voice’ to conceal their emotions.
Perception is multisensory.
Brains recognize a smell based on which cells fire, in what order – the same way you recognize a song based on its pattern of notes. How much can you change the ‘tune’ and still know the smell?
Your faithful friend’s view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.
Researchers would like to find a way to relate the human perception of dryness to the chemical and physical properties of the wine.
A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
We can see at a finer resolution than the spacing between individual photo-receptors in the eye – and it’s all down to our brains.
How does your brain deal with the ambiguous and variable visual information your eyes collect? Neuroscientists think it bets on what’s the most likely version of reality.
Uploading one’s mind to a computer in order to attain digital immortality has long been the fantasy of geeks and billionaires. So what’s stopping us?
Why do certain songs and colors make us feel a certain way?
Social communication requires us to integrate information from all our senses. But it seems the systems that govern different emotion perception skills may be impaired in people with bipolar disorder.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Directeur de Recherche en neurosciences computationelles, Inria; Université de Bordeaux
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Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
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Technical Officer, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Research, Brown University
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Visiting Fellow in Sensation, Cognition & Action, National Institutes of Health
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Assistant Professor of Enology, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor, Durham University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Small Animal Science, Penn State
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Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Investigator at the National Eye Institute, Section on Perception, Cognition, and Action, National Institutes of Health
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Adjunct Professor of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University