From the California Institute of Technology press release via MedicalXpress: A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel…
From the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum press release via MedicalXpress: Patients who are blind in one side of their visual field benefit from presentation of sounds on the affected side. After passively hearing sounds for an hour, their…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via AlphaGalileo: Can the temperature of the food we eat affect the intensity of its taste? It depends on the taste, according to a new study by Dr.…
From the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) press release via Newswise: Can blindness or other forms of visual deprivation really enhance our other senses such as hearing or touch? While this theory is widely regarded…
From the McGill University press release: We rely on our senses in all aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, many people suffer from some kind of impaired sensory function. In Canada alone, 600,000 people are visually…
From the Springer press release via AlphaGalileo: Anxious people have a heightened sense of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new study by Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from…
From the Stowers Institute for Medical Research press release via Newswise: Just like a road atlas faithfully maps real-word locations, our brain maps many aspects of our physical world: Sensory inputs from our fingers are…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new…
From the UCLA press release: Our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize, a new UCLA psychology study shows. “If we think of the perceptual system as a democracy…
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: “Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information about where and when the ball hit the table is provided by both…