It's no secret that babies generally smell pleasant to their mothers—and teenagers not so much. A team of researchers investigating how body odors affect the mother-child relationship found that a mom's olfactory sense ...
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Humans and animals detect different stimuli such as light, sound, and odor through nerve cells, which then transmit the information to the brain. Nerve cells must be able to adjust to the wide range of stimuli they receive, ...
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FIU doctoral student Maanasa Jayachandran is working to unravel the mystery of how the brain recalls memories in the correct order.
Dec 4, 2019
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A team of neuroscientists at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon (Portugal), has performed one of the first studies into the central neural circuits (or higher brain areas) that underlie innate responses ...
Jan 17, 2019
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Pleasant and unpleasant odors are a part of everyone's life, but how do our reactions to smells change when other odors are present? To answer this question, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have ...
Jun 16, 2016
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A dog raises its nose in the air before chasing after a scent. A mosquito zigzags back and forth before it lands on your arm for its next meal. What these behaviors have in common is that they help these animals "see" their ...
Jan 26, 2022
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Neural waves of three distinct registers combine to give the brain a picture of what's being smelled, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in PLOS Biology.
Feb 3, 2022
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New research makes advances in understanding how smells are perceived and represented in the brain. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2019, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest ...
Oct 22, 2019
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For many animals, making sense of the clutter of sensory stimuli is often a matter or literal life or death.
Aug 3, 2014
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Matthew DeGennaro is determined to stop the world's deadliest animal.
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