Articles related to sensory perception
| Browse: Smell and Taste Receptors in the Heart |
The rate of taste disorders in children exceeds World Health Organisation guidelines, and combined with smell disorders compromises the nutritional health of a significant proportion of young Australians. |
Recent studies have highlighted how central signals in the brain can change our sensation of the position and movement of joints, and how phantom limbs form when sensory information is lost. |
Scientists are using the perceptual trickery of pickpockets and magicians as a new tool to study perceptual processing in the brain. |
The “cheerleader effect” – the observation that people appear more attractive when they are in a group – reveals some quirks about how the brain processes complicated visual information. |
Neuropsy:
Wired for Sound?
A new study proposes a biological cause for misophonia – the pathological hatred of sounds. |
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Neuropsy:
Seeing Is Believing
Illusory pattern perception is associated with a belief in conspiracy theories. |
