We are all pretty familiar with how our bodies sense what is going on in the outside world – what we see, hear, touch, taste or smell. But exactly how do our brains sense and react to what is going on ...

All bodily feelings reflect a sixth sense we have called interoception. Explore its interesting idiosyncrasies and the role ...

The National Institutes of Health is awarding seven projects a total of $18.15 million over five years to a new effort focused on interoception—the ways in which organisms sense and regulate signals ...

It is believed that in 30 seconds, the human brain goes through roughly the same amount of information as the Hubble Space Telescope processes in 30 years. Part of that data comes from the world ...

Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing – these are the senses we’re probably all familiar with. But we humans may not be limited to just five: some scientists argue for a “sixth sense” – though there ...

A new study conducted at Reichman University’s Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology, led by Prof. Amir Amedi, demonstrates how the external representation of physiological ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many senses do humans have? Growing up, most of us learned that there are five main senses – sight, smell, hearing, taste, ...