– The part of the brain that uses hearing to determine sound location is reorganized in deaf animals to locate visual targets, according to a new study by a team of researchers from Virginia ...

The Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS), established in 1997, helps bring the latest research on how people think, learn, decide, and experience the world to bear on public ...

Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...

Sensory information enters the brain at the primary sensory cortex, where they are processed by different layers of cells in ways that ultimately influence an animal's perception and behavioral ...

A few days ago, a client asked me a question I've heard at least once a week for the past year. Her three-year-old daughter, who is currently in occupational therapy for issues around sensory ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

Gut bacteria are tiny but may play an outsized role not only in the host animal's digestive health, but in their overall well-being. According to a new study in Nature, specific gut bacteria in the ...

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