News tagged with sensory signals

Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand

In a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, neurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an art ...

Neuroscience May 10, 2013 | not rated yet | 0 |

Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses

The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...

Neuroscience Nov 20, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2 |

How your eyes deceive you

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Sydney have thrown new light on the tricks the brain plays as it struggles to make sense of the visual and other sensory signals it constantly receives.

Neuroscience Apr 24, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Gene therapy for hearing loss: Potential and limitations

Regenerating sensory hair cells, which produce electrical signals in response to vibrations within the inner ear, could form the basis for treating age- or trauma-related hearing loss. One way to do this could be with gene ...

Neuroscience May 11, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Scientists identify molecules in the ear that convert sound into brain signals

For scientists who study the genetics of hearing and deafness, finding the exact genetic machinery in the inner ear that responds to sound waves and converts them into electrical impulses, the language of ...

Medical research Dec 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 5 |

One neuron has huge impact on brain behaviour

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Australia and the USA have made a unique discovery about how the brain computes sensory information.

Neuroscience Nov 15, 2012 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Where the nonspecific thalamus meets the prefrontal cortex: First measurements made of key brain links

Inside the brains of mice and men alike, a relatively big football-shaped region called the thalamus acts like a switchboard, providing the prefrontal cortex, the part that does abstract thinking and decision-making, with ...

Neuroscience Dec 04, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Multisensory integration: When correlation implies causation

In order to get a better picture of our surroundings, the brain has to integrate information from different senses, but how does it know which signals to combine? New research involving scientists from the ...

Neuroscience Dec 15, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Exploring the brain's relationship to habits

(Medical Xpress)—The basal ganglia, structures deep in the forebrain already known to control voluntary movements, also may play a critical role in how people form habits, both bad and good, and in influencing ...

Neuroscience Jan 15, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

New findings on the workings of the inner ear

The sensory cells of the inner ear have tiny hairs called stereocilia that play a critical part in hearing. It has long been known that these stereocilia move sideways back and forth in a wave-like motion when stimulated ...

Medical research Oct 02, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

Study sheds light on late phase of asthma attacks

New research led by scientists from Imperial College London explains why around half of people with asthma experience a 'late phase' of symptoms several hours after exposure to allergens. The findings, published in the journal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Aug 13, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |