Olfactory receptors are integral to sensory perception, forming a sophisticated system that enables organisms to detect and differentiate an immense variety of volatile chemical compounds. As members ...

Receptor patterns define key organisational principles in the brain, scientists have discovered. An international team of researchers, studying macaque brains, have mapped out neurotransmitter ...

In findings recently published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Semrau and doctoral candidate Joanna Hoh suggest ...

Along with her doctoral candidate, Joanna Hoh, Semrau suggests clinicians can uncover sensory deficits without requiring ...

The ScentVista 400 technology was created by the Japanese beauty conglomerate’s Sensory Science Research Laboratory division ...

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. 'Evolution does not produce novelties from scratch. It works with what already exists,' wrote Nobel laureate François Jacob in 1977, and biologists continue ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

NYU Langone researchers identified the connections between neurons that store sensory details and keep memories stable, ...

Sensory processing disorder—also known as SPD or sensory integration disorder—is a term describing a collection of challenges that occur when the senses fail to respond properly to the outside world.