Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

By Telma Sagnard, Brice Picot, and Nicolas Forestier The quality of vision or hearing differs from one person to another.

When this receptor is overactivated, external sensory input is suppressed, and the brain generates more internally-driven images. "It's a bit like our brain is increasingly talking to itself ...

When the sensory receptors in the nervous system malfunction, as they’re theorized to do in SPD, common stimuli like lights, noises, and textures may be perceived as too bright, too loud ...

Now it is known that they contain primary cilia, although only in sensory neurons. If primary cilia can act as one type of receptor, can they also act as other types? Yes, they absolutely can.

These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical ...

Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in ...