Touch – Knowing Neurons

Have you ever touched a flavor?

abril 20, 2022abril 20, 2022 Carolyn Amir flavor, gustatory, Olfaction, Percepción, Sensación, taste, Touch

The multisensory perception of taste Starting when we are little children, the role of food in our lives is crucial. The act of sharing a meal is something so universally… Leer más

Feature image depicting a fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman experiencing pain shortly after birth and having that pain show up later on in adulthood. Illustrated by McCall Sarrett.

Aging Big Ideas Brain Development Sensation and Perception

How Pain in Newborns Can Have Lifelong Consequences

septiembre 18, 2019septiembre 17, 2019 Denis Duagi Analgesics, Desarrollo cerebral, Chronic Pain, La electroencefalografía, o EEG,, Excitatory Neurons, Resonancia Magnética funcional, GABA, Glycine, Inhibitory Neurons, Neonatal Pain, Pain, Sensación, Somatosensory, Tactile fibers, Touch

You probably don’t remember anything from when you were an infant. However, chances are that you experienced some pain immediately after you were born. You might have needed an IV… Leer más

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

When the blind can see again: A critical question of perception

septiembre 28, 2016junio 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Acuity, Blind, Cat, Cataracts, Color, Critical Period, Deprivation, Desarrollo, Hubel, Illusion, Kitten, Light, Monocular, Oversegementation, Percepción, Perceptual, Project Prakash, See, Sight, synaptic plasticity, Touch, Visión, Visual, Visual cortex, Wiesel

Our sense of sight is arguably our most important sense. Imagine how different your life would be if soon after birth, you lost the ability to see. For over 1.4… Leer más

52 Brain Facts

Myth or Fact? Your vibrating cell phone helps release sodium ions.

agosto 15, 2016junio 30, 2017 knowingneurons 52 Brain Facts, Action Potential, Awesome, Cerebro, Connective tissue, Cool, Fact, Feel, Ion, Ions, Myth, Nerve, sistema nervioso, Pacinian corpuscle, Pacinian corpuscles, Pressue, Sodium, Spike, Touch, Vibration

Brain Books Sensation and Perception

Connecting to our Social Selves

julio 13, 2016junio 30, 2017 knowingneurons A-beta, and Mind, Book, Braille, Cerebro, C-fiber, David J. Linden, Heart, Mechanical, Mechanism, Meissner, Merkel, Pacinian, Pain, Pleasure, Receptor, Review, Ruffini, SCN9A, Sense, Sex, social, Touch, Touch: The Science of Hand

Dear Skin, I would like to express my upmost gratitude for the vast amount of receptors you possess. Among my favorites – the practical ones that allow me to find… Leer más

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Science with a Touch of Art: A Conversation with David Ginty

noviembre 10, 2014marzo 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber @KnowingNeurons, Art, Brainstem, Creativity, Grad School, Intuition, Mechanosensory, Neuronas, Organization, Postdoc, Sense, Sensory, SfN14, Spinal cord, Touch

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176184172″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] If you think about it, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. The dozens… Leer más

Neuro News Sensation and Perception

Not just skin deep: Neurons detect pleasurable touch

febrero 18, 2013marzo 5, 2017 Anita C fibers, Conditioned place preference, David J. Anderson, Genetic identification of C fibres that detect massage-like stroking of hairy skin in vivo., Insular cortex, Massage, Nature, Somatosensation, Sophia Vrontou, Tactile fibers, Touch

What separates us from our physical environment is our skin. From the minute we wake up, we use our somatosensation to start our tangible interaction with the world. Is the… Leer más