Tag: senses
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Seeing = Hearing = ...
Scientists studying brain process involved in sight have found the visual cortex also uses information gleaned from the ears as well as the eyes when viewing the world. (1) Everything interconnects with everything. Our body is a monad. Our mind is a monad. There is nothing else. Every attempt to analyze and break them into…
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Skin, stomach, heart - The "alternative" brains...
We are all familiar with that uncomfortable feeling in our stomach when faced with a threatening situation. By studying rats, researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to prove for the first time that our 'gut instinct' has a significant impact on how we react to fear. (1) While touch always involves awareness, it also…
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I smell something... Don't think about it!
The intricate neural wiring that carries smells to the brain locks into place soon after birth, two new mouse studies suggest. The results, published in the April 11 Science, identify a window of time in which the olfactory system can be scrambled. Once that window closes, the network becomes cemented into the brain, even as…
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Sounds, language, space, hidden knowledge...
Ηave you ever wondered why most natural languages invariably use the same spatial attributes -- high versus low -- to describe auditory pitch? Or why, throughout the history of musical notation, high notes have been represented high on the staff? According to a team of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for…
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Smells, senses, science...
It used to be thought that human noses could only detect around 10,000 smells, although many scientists thought that was probably a bit too low. A new study suggests that number is much higher--that humans can distinguish among 1 trillion different scents. (1) Even though we may not be able to name them, the "study"…
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