Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

Keep that in your back pocket for the next time someone tells you that you’re too sensitive – you can’t help it.

Microneurography is a method that allows the researchers to listen to the nerve signalling in one nerve cell at a time. No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. Like ...

We know "A is for Apple," but is A also for "red"? About 5 percent of the population has synesthesia, or "crossed" responses to stimuli. Those with color-grapheme synesthesia see certain letters in ...

Researchers from the HSE School of Linguistics and the Centre for Language and Brain carried out an experiment to find out how language speakers perceive the different meanings, or senses, of ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work.