In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

Scientists tracked how 80 people's brains responded to watching touch. Pain information appeared in 135 milliseconds.

An unusual collaboration between physicists at the University of California, San Diego and psychologists at Vanderbilt University has revealed how the brains of higher animals and probably humans ...

Sensory memory refers to very short-term memories about perceptions of the world through the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. A fraction of the information captured in sensory ...

The video game Tetris may quell flashbacks of traumatic events in a way that other kinds of games can't, researchers have found. The curious effect might have to do with how the shapes in the game ...

In a study published in Neurocase this August, scientists at the Institut du Cerveau in Paris describe the extraordinary cognitive world of TL, a 17-year-old French student whose brain appears to be ...

Tactile details matter in the beauty industry - as luxury players from Dior, HermEs and Chanel, to Tom Ford and Byredo understand The luxury beauty industry has always understood one thing: before we ...

Many people with autism experience sensory hypersensitivity, attention deficits, and sleep disruption. One brain region that has been implicated in these symptoms is the thalamic reticular nucleus ...