Sensory Systems | Max Planck Neuroscience

Safe on your feet: Sense of touch is more important than expected

Neurons in the spinal cord integrate tactile information and help coordinate walking. Many people are uncomfortable when...

Visual aesthetic experiences unfold over time, yet most of our understanding of such experiences comes from experiments...

Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian brains...

Larval zebrafish require both global and local visual stimuli to avoid drifting. If you drift off course, it’s useful to...

Visual aesthetic evaluations, which impact decision-making and well-being, recruit the ventral visual pathway, subcortical...

Both time-based (when) and feature-based (what) aspects of attention facilitate behavior, so it is natural to hypothesize...

A mouse’s brain creates a multi-sensory impression of the nearby environment When viewing objects within reach of our...

Decision bias is traditionally conceptualized as an internal reference against which sensory evidence is compared...

Adequate reliability of measurement is a precondition for investigating individual differences and age-related changes in...

Older adults experience difficulties in daily situations that require flexible information selection in the presence of...