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Pain Signaling in Humans More Rapid Than Previously Known

July 5, 2019

The discovery of a rapid pain-signaling system challenges our current understanding of pain

Virtual Reality Takes a Leap into Taste

June 26, 2019

Researchers develop the optoPAD, a system that creates "virtual taste realities"

Phantom Sensations: When the Sense of Touch Deceives

June 18, 2019

Study shows how healthy people can sometimes misattribute touch to the wrong side of their body, or even to a completely wron...

Sensing Food Textures Is a Matter of Pressure

June 14, 2019

Despite being a key driver of the acceptance or rejection of foods, researchers point out that oral texture perception remain...

Why Some Red Wines Taste 'Dry'

May 9, 2019

The dryness sensation, also known as astringency, refers to a puckering or rough feeling in the mouth upon drinking wine...

Bats Evolved Diverse Skull Shapes Due to Echolocation, Diet

May 2, 2019

With so much morphological variety, bats represent an opportunity to learn what types of evolutionary forces shape the shapes...

Smelling with Your Tongue

April 24, 2019

Identification of functional olfactory receptors in human taste cells opens doors to new approaches to modify food flavor...

Evidence for a Human Geomagnetic Sense

March 25, 2019

Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields...

The Sweet Spot: Taste Center in Brain Located

March 15, 2019

Researchers located the taste center using functional magnetic resonance imagingand a new method of statistical analysis...

How the Brain Distinguishes Textures—from Sandpaper to Silk

February 20, 2019

Researchers discover the rich neural activity behind the sensation of touch

Why We Shouldn't Like Coffee, But We Do

November 20, 2018

Weirdly, people with a higher sensitivity to bitter caffeine taste drink more coffee

Just How Blind Are Bats? Color Vision Gene Study Examines Key Sensory Tradeoffs

October 17, 2018

A new study has examined this question in the evolution of color vision genes across a large and diverse group of bat sp...

Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste

October 16, 2018

Virtual reality shows how people's perception of real food can be altered by their surroundings

Spontaneous Fluctuations of Brain Activity Influence What You See

June 18, 2018

Researchers have found that the state of excitability of the brain—indexed byspontaneous neural oscillations&mdash...

Distracted People Can Be 'Smell Blind'

June 7, 2018

Those busily engaged in tasks may not notice new smells, according to a new University of Sussex study

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