The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this brain ...

A man who had lost meaningful movement and sensation in his hands after a severe spinal cord injury was able to grasp objects, feed himself and experience touch again using an experimental system ...

When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within milliseconds. That cluster sits inside a grid of cortical columns, each one ...

Chronic pain has long been described as a matter of raw sensation, a persistent alarm that the body cannot switch off. But a ...

The passage of time is sensed, perceived, and experienced, but—unlike for touch, vision, hearing, and olfaction—there exist no sensory receptors for time. This fact has long tantalized neuroscientists ...

Stanford researchers implanted lab-grown human brain tissue into newborn rats, where it matured, connected to neural circuits, and helped scientists study brain development and disease.

How does the brain make sense of what we see, hear, and feel - and transform these separate signals into a coherent perception of the world? A new study published in Science provides important clues ...

This article summarizes the key points of the article "Decades-long debate settled: Brain neurons are 'generalists' rather than 'specialists'," published on 'BioMarket jp,' a news site reporting on ...

Reusable brain modules in mice let the same prefrontal neurons hold either a sound or an action plan in working memory.