Category: Senses
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Brain. Synchronization. Fear. (What do you hear?)
Most of the time, our brain receives different input from each of our ears, but we nevertheless perceive speech as unified sounds. This process takes place through synchronization of the areas of the brain involved with the help of gamma waves, neurolinguists have now discovered. Their findings may lead to new treatment approaches for tinnitus.…
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Interactions. Robots. Dead flowers…
Researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all. Instead, a USB camera located inside the robot captures the shadow movements of hand gestures on the robot’s skin and classifies them with machine-learning software. (1)…
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Reacting. Prioritizing. (Dying)
Being constantly flooded by a mass of stimuli, it is impossible for us to react to all of them. The same holds true for a little fish. Which stimuli should it pay attention to and which not? Scientists have now deciphered the neuronal circuit that zebrafish use to prioritize visual stimuli. Surrounded by predators, a…
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Blind brain. Seeing everything.
Researchers observed slow spontaneous fluctuations in the brain’s visual centers that preceded visual hallucinations in blind people. (1) Weird. Even blind people see. At the end, what might be missing is what we all crave for: Not seeing anything… Detached from the cosmos… Only then we might see things that we do not see… And…
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“Seeing” blue light…
Plants can perceive and react to light across a wide spectrum. New research shows how plants can respond to blue light in particular by revealing the structure of cryptochrome-2, the molecule that reacts to blue light. (1) “Seeing” blue light. How mundane. Our whole perception enslaved into mere interactions. Our whole thought dictated by things…
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