In people with epilepsy undergoing a pre-surgical monitoring technique called stereo-electroencephalography, electrical leads from a type of depth electrode are implanted throughout the brain. Kehl ...

The human olfactory system discriminates between thousands of odours by interacting specifically with olfactory receptors on sensory neurons. Each receptor can detect several odorants at different ...

We often only realize how important our sense of smell is when it is no longer there: food hardly tastes good, or we no longer react to dangers such as the smell of smoke. Researchers at the ...

The sprawling network of the visual cortex reigned supreme in the field of sensory processing, contributing significantly to our understanding of sensory perception. In contrast, the study of ...

The intricate interplay between our senses shapes our perception of the world around us. While previous research has extensively explored how vision influences our predictions, little is known about ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 42 (October 19, 2021), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Determining the valence of an odor to guide rapid ...

Can humans detect odors faster than we think? Yes! New research shows we can perceive chemical changes in smells within just 60 milliseconds of a single sniff. Humans can detect odor changes in as ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has demonstrated how differences in neural activity within the brain's olfactory and orbital cortices cause people to perceive the same odors differently, according ...

The sense of smell is highly influenced by the cues from other senses, while the sense of sight and hearing are affected to a much lesser extent, shows a new study in Journal of Neuroscience, titled ...