News tagged with human sensory
Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses
The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 20, 2011 |
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Researchers produce detailed map of gene activity in mouse brain
A new atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain provides insight into how genes work in the outer part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. In humans, the cerebral cortex is the largest part of the brain, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 24, 2011 |
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The nose knows: UF to help train experts in sniffing out oil spill-contaminated seafood
(PhysOrg.com) -- To keep consumers safe from seafood that could be tainted by the Gulf oil spill, regulatory officials will rely on an incredibly sophisticated, delicate tool: the human nose.
May 12, 2010 |
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Odors classified by networks of neurons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), are unraveling how odors are processed by the brain. As they report in Nature, odors in the olfactory brain are cl ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2010 |
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Teaching computers to recognise
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recognising objects and groups of objects is something we humans take for granted. For computers, this is far from straightforward. A European project has come up with novel solutions to this conundrum.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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