Most of us take our senses for granted, at least until one of them stops working. But despite the usefulness of smell, sight, touch and the other senses, they took millions of years to work themselves ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers investigated the response of individual neurons in specific regions of the brain to olfactory cues. Through neural activity recordings during odor ...

Activation patterns in the amygdala in response to pleasant smells. (A to D) Brain scans showing activation patterns. Histograms showing Shapley values of experimental participants. (E) Venn diagram ...

Our brains contain “banana” neurons that fire when we see or smell the fruit, or even just hear the word “banana”, hinting at how concepts are encoded within the brain. We already know that several ...