Motion sickness results when your senses report conflicting information to your brain that it can’t reconcile based on its expectations about how the world works.
Many people find the smell of strong perfumes to be irritating.
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Activating the somatosensory cortex may help us connect to our bodies, develop our sensitivity, sensuality and capacity to feel pleasure.
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The brain’s somatosensory cortex may help enrich our emotional experiences and improve our mental health. Mindfulness and dance movement therapy may be effective ways to activate it.
Motion sickness affects people of all ages.
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It’s intriguing how some people experience ASMR while others don’t - our latest research suggests that many ASMR responders are highly sensitive “orchids”.
Being able to perceive sweetness can guide foragers to the most calorie-rich picks.
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If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
Nobel prizewinning research has revealed the various molecules that help us sense temperature, touch, pain, and even the positioning of our body parts.
When we lie down, our brains rely more on touch and pressure to figure out our surroundings.
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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.
Fossils of Shuvuuia deserti depict a small predatory creature with exceptional night vision and hearing.
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By looking at the eye bones and ear canals of extinct dinosaurs, researchers show that a small ancient predator likely hunted at night and had senses as good as a modern barn owl.
The dreams of a person without sight since birth can be just as vivid and imaginative as those of someone with normal vision.
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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.
Crisp sounds can trigger ASMR.
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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?
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
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