As we interact with the world, we feel it when we touch things. The information we get from touch sensations helps us carry out many daily activities, from typing on a keyboard to handling food.

Researchers find that scents are not only processed by the olfactory center, but also by the brain’s reward and aversion systems, explaining how scents take on meaning. The CRACK platform was used as ...

Healthy participants are needed to participate in a research study at the JHU Homewood campus, in Krieger Hall, room G60. The purpose of the study is to investigate human touch perception and ...

Imagine a world where robots can feel, just like you and me. It’s not a scene from a sci-fi movie, but the exciting reality that Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is working tirelessly ...

The percept of time relates to the sense of touch. A new SISSA study "A sensory integration account for time perception" published in PLOS Computational Biology uncovers this connection. "The ...

Analytical philosophical discussion of perception based on the sense of touch. The various theories are outlined and debated point by point. "Adopting the relational conception of perception, [the ...

You may scarcely notice it, but much of what you do every day requires your brain to engage in perceptual learning. To safely cross an intersection or quickly retrieve something from your bag, you ...