Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the time gap your brain tolerates between seeing and feeling a touch while still ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that children with sensory processing disorders have decreased structural brain connections in specific sensory regions different than those in autism, ...

A study published in Nature provides insight into how the brain processes sensory information from the internal organs. Researchers at Harvard Medical School used high-resolution imaging to identify ...

Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

Although the vast majority of kids with autism have abnormal sensory behaviors, their brains are still wired very differently from children who have trouble processing sensory stimuli, researchers ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." Led by researchers ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...