Watching someone experience pain on screen activates your own brain’s touch-processing system in a highly organized, body-specific way.

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network ...

Life needs stimulation. However, overstimulation can cause exhaustion and illness. During specific sensitive periods early in life, stress can even affect later mental health. Accumulating evidence ...

Humans and other animals actively sense their surrounding environment. This entails the deliberate adjustment of motor ...

The advent of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has had a colossal impact on virtually every aspect of human life, transforming the way many tasks and even professions are being handled ...

The ability to sense heat protects the body from burns and injury. But how the body actually feels temperature has remained an elusive mystery. Now, Northwestern University researchers have captured a ...

I am an occupational therapist working with all humans on understanding & regulating their own unique sensory system. Most sensory based OT's work with children, but after 8 years of working with ...

There is new hope for people who have lost their smell. Scientists have successfully tested a breakthrough device that lets ...