Twenty-One Senses offers mobile calming spaces and various fidgets, at the request of event organizers, for people of all ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Today’s world struggles with attention, stress and a myriad of related issues. Every day, things like endless notifications, doom scrolling, the 24-hour news cycle and social media worm their way ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed.

It’s a given that colleges try to help their students interpret the world around them. At SUNY Cortland, college students are helping children who have difficulty making sense of the sights, sounds, ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at ...