Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

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It is believed that in 30 seconds, the human brain goes through roughly the same amount of information as the Hubble Space Telescope processes in 30 years. Part of that data comes from the world ...

We all know about our five senses and the importance they play in our daily lives: smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. Some scientists say that we have many more that just five senses, and they ...

LYING in the dark, my senses are straining for inputs and finding none. I am floating in warm, salty water that is so close to my body temperature, I can’t tell where my body ends and the water begins ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1708, Theme issue: Interoception beyond homeostasis: affect, cognition and mental health (19 November 2016), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) ...

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