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Weird Animal Brain: Narwhal

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber Brain, Narwhal, Neuron, Neuroscience, Ocean, Sense, Weird Animal Brain

Narwhal tusks used to be sold as unicorn horns and were believed to contain magical powers. Now we know a little bit more about these unique tusks, and the truth… Read more

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

Why Mosquitoes Love Us

February 8, 2017June 30, 2017 Megumi Sano Antenna, Chemosensation, Drosophila, Flies, Fruit fly, GFP, Glomerulus, Green fluorescent protein, gustatory, Labial Palp, Leslie Vosshall, Maxillary Palp, microbiome, Mosquito, Mosquitoes, Multimodal Sensory Integration, Odor, Odorant, Olfaction, olfactory, Perception, Proboscis, Sense, Sensilla, Sensory, SEZ, Smell, subesophageal zone, taste

From that evil itch on your arm to torturous diseases such as malaria, Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, mosquito bites can have unpleasant consequences. But have you ever wondered why… Read more

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Weird animal brain: Sharks

October 31, 2016June 30, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber Brain, Electricity, Fact, Head, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Lorenzini, Neuroscience, Organ, Perception, Receptor, Research, Science, Sense, Shark

Everyone knows sharks are fierce predators. How exactly they hunt so well is in part due to their extra sixth sense: electroreception!… Read more

Feature image of a brain with a circle pulsating from the center, to symbolically describe synesthesia.

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

What is Synesthesia?

September 13, 2016June 5, 2019 Kayleen Schreiber Audition, auditory, Brain, Color, Colors, Dendrite, Hear, Hearing, Mix, Mixed, Music, Perception, See, Sense, Senses, Sight, Synesthesia, Vision

Have you ever wondered if you experience the world like everyone else? We assume that our senses tell us what’s going on in the world, but they’re far from perfect.… Read more

52 Brain Facts Sensation and Perception

Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation

July 18, 2016June 5, 2019 knowingneurons 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Cortex, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Vision, Whale

Brain Books Sensation and Perception

Connecting to our Social Selves

July 13, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons A-beta, and Mind, Book, Braille, Brain, 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… Read more

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

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

November 10, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber @KnowingNeurons, Art, Brainstem, Creativity, Grad School, Intuition, Mechanosensory, Neurons, 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… Read more

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska

October 27, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Blind, Botond Roska, Circuits, Computational, Cortex, David Hubel, Neural, Neuroscience, Retina, See, Sense, SfN14, Sight, Thalamus, Vision, Visual

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174013562″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] When we see the world, there is a huge amount of processing that occurs in the neural circuits of the retina, thalamus, and… Read more