“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

UC San Diego researchers discovered that during motor learning, inputs from the motor thalamus play a crucial role in ...

Scientists mapped separate brain areas for the five senses. Findings reveal a shared neural pathway when focusing on only one of the senses.

A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness—a finding that might ...

A new study reveals that all human senses—sight, hearing, taste, and touch—activate the same deep brain regions linked to consciousness when attention is sharply focused.

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

Upon his arrival at Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, the doctors meticulously evaluated his condition. While studying the ...

A landmark study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science's understanding of the way learning takes ...

For millions of people around the world with essential tremor, everyday activities from eating and drinking to dressing and ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.