Our brains process music via different sensory pathways depending on what we think its source is, a new study finds. As our brains organize information from our senses into a coherent representation of the world around us, they’re constantly hard at work associating data from one sense – say, sight – with data from another – say, hearing. A [...]
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Musical Matchups
November 28th, 2011 
The Connectome 
Posted in Brain News 
Tags: fMRI, hearing, music, neurophysiology, senses, touch, vision 
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October 18th, 2011 The Connectome Watching another person being softly caressed activates very similar brain regions to those that actually allow us to feel a soft touch, says a new study. The sensation of gentle touch is conveyed by a specific type of neuron - tactile C (CT) afferents – found only in hairy skin. These neurons respond most strongly to soft [...]
Posted in Brain News Tags: neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology, senses, sex, touch No Comments »Virtual Touch
October 7th, 2011 The Connectome A new brain-machine interface allows minds to literally feel the texture of computer-generated objects, a recent paper reports. This interface not only allows a monkey to remotely control a virtual hand by willing it to move – the system also routes feedback on textures and vibrations to the somatosensory cortex, where that feedback is processed as sensations of [...]
Posted in Brain News Tags: neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, senses, technology, technosophy, touch 3 Comments »Pain on the Brain
August 19th, 2011 The Connectome Men and women experience pain in different ways, a new study shows. The behavior of opioids – chemicals that suppress pain – differs between men’s and women’s bodies. This is because the three main types of opioid receptors in the brain and spinal cord interact very differently, depending on whether their owner is a man or [...]
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