Like other seminal discoveries, Kanwisher’s finding made sense in hindsight ... role in defining the function of these regions in human face recognition.” Tsao and Freiwald’s subsequent ...

The human eye can see around 10 million different colours. Despite their much better sense of smell, dogs cannot see as many colours as humans can. Birds have very good eyesight and can see many ...

Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing ...

Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a ...

Scientists at Caltech have uncovered a surprising limit to human thought speed—just 10 bits per second—despite our senses absorbing data at a billion bits per second. This discovery raises fascinating ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Multifunctional semiconductor fibers have been developed to emulate the five human senses, offering advanced capabilities over traditional fiber sensors. These ...