Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the time gap your brain tolerates between seeing and feeling a touch while still ...

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 ...

Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche, has discovered that the ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." Led by researchers ...

Although the vast majority of kids with autism have abnormal sensory behaviors, their brains are still wired very differently from children who have trouble processing sensory stimuli, researchers ...