A study published in Nature provides insight into how the brain processes sensory information from the internal organs. Researchers at Harvard Medical School used high-resolution imaging to identify ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Sensory processes, perception and performance constitute a multifaceted domain that bridges the sensory encoding of environmental stimuli, the perceptual interpretations formed by the brain, and the ...

All individuals have preferences for certain sensory stimuli and process their sensory environments in individualized ways. Traditionally, understanding sensory processing differences has been a ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...

Researchers challenge the "efficiency" theory of the brain, showing that neurons become more coordinated and share more information as learning occurs.

In Stage 1, the processes include phenomena such as inter- sensory processing and “top-down processing” (also called “knowledge-based processing”). These are phenomena that determine what we ...

Studies from Drexel University and the University of Fukui reveal alarming new insights into the effects of screen time on toddlers.