Science news articles about 'sensory signals'

... faces of the transplant recipient and four control participants. Results showed that sensory signals from the transplanted hand are being processed in the same brain regions that would have formerly ...

... regulation of the locus coeruleus, a bundle of neurons in the brain stem that processes sensory signals from all areas of the body. The new theory stems from decades of anecdotal observations that ...

... School of Medicine in Tokyo. Dr. Uka and coauthor Dr. Ryo Sasaki investigated where and how identical sensory signals are converted into distinct motor signals. The researchers ...

... was activated. The authors further showed that these brain rhythms regulate the processing of sensory signals. They found that the brain's response to a tactile stimulus was greater or smaller ...

... changed to reflect a specific choice when participants were required to discriminate between similar sensory signals and assign objects into categories. Intriguingly, changes that reflected perceived ...

... the result of increasing uncertainty about where straight ahead is. "Small random errors in the various sensory signals that provide information about walking direction add up over time, making what a ...

... can wake up quickly, a unique mammalian adaptation that allows for a relatively quick response to sensory signals. Humans fit into this analysis as well. What is most remarkable about sleep, ...

... discovered a novel mechanism that explains how incoming sensory signals make themselves heard amidst ... very clearly at low volume not only because the signal is weak but because ambient noise is masking ...