Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...

Some smells can seem stronger than others despite equivalent odor concentrations, but how does this occur? This study shows that coordinated neural activity between the human olfactory bulb and pirifo...

Emter et al. improve in vitro expression of odorant receptors (OR) by engineering the C-terminal domain. With a library of engineered ORs, they discover ORs for signature odorants, which they relate…

The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by the body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory ...

Researchers, exploring what happens in the brain after exposure to certain smells, found that that even brief odor cues have a lasting effect

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A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...

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Engelen et al. review in animals and humans how the CNS senses cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythmic activity, and detail the range of cognitive functions impacted, from perceptual detection up to...

Our perceptual experience is generally framed in multisensory environments abundant in predictive information. Previous research on statistical learni…

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