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Articles related to sensory perception
| Browse: Smell and Taste Receptors in the Heart |
Sensory deprivation, dreams, hallucinations and the detection of familiar patterns in clouds and repetitive sounds reveal our brain’s determination to make meaning from random noise. |
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. |
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there is an additional treasure-trove of information still to be mined from new ways of looking at people's varying faces. |
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. |
