This behavior is caused by a specific receptor in the skin of mammals, called C-LTMR, which responds to stimuli like water ...

It is the responsibility of every concerned citizen to get out and vote. If every Christian voted based on biblical ...

The sight of a person facing us is another element that draws our attention to a scene, wrote Nicolas Goupil (Université ...

suggesting that the intermittant lack of oxygen caused by apnea decreases a person's ability to recover from painful stimuli.

In her new book, “The Science and Art of Sensory Processing Sensitivity” (Elsevier, 2024), UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist ...

Motion illusions override the eye’s compensatory mechanisms for stabilizing movements. The brain works intensively to process ...

Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells. Plants control their water consumption via adjustable ...

The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than 10 ...

A team of neurobiologists at Harvard Medical School's Howard Hughes Medical Institute has uncovered the neural mechanism ...

There have been many attempts to create monochromatic metallic materials, but few materials change luster color in response ...

They are covered in bumps called papillae (similar to those on a human tongue) with taste receptors that detect chemical stimuli coming from buried prey. If they taste something appetizing ...

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias ...