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

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 ...

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 ...

Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...

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 ...

It's not hard to imagine that a sensor as small as the size of a Band-Aid could collect information about your heart rate or temperature and then transmit that data using a wireless signal to a ...

How can sensory systems help us design more innovative products that enrich our everyday lives? As part of the Be Open's Sound Portal installation at the London Design Festival, Wired Magazine's Tom ...