The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies to win approval of new drugs, the latest change from Trump administration officials vowing to ...

Robert Pellegrino, Ph.D., has joined the Texas A&M Department of Animal Science as an assistant professor of sensory science ...

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Neuroscientists and philosophers are re-examining Aristotle’s model of the five senses by investigating how the brain processes sensory information.

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Knowable Magazine reports on efforts to recreate historical smells, enhancing our connection to the past and enriching cultural experiences.

Neuroscientist Charles Spence and philosopher of mind Casey O’Callaghan are among a growing group of researchers who argue that the schoolbook list of five senses is badly out of date. Drawing on work ...

There are daily, loving choices we can make that tap into the power of neuroscience to bring more happiness into our life.

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...

‘Mental well-being and our interiors are closely linked because the environments we inhabit continuously shape our stress ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...