Balance, temperature detection, pain, hunger, time perception, and body position all count as senses. The familiar five ...

The next phase of AI, already underway, will integrate text with vision, sound, motion and even touch. This will produce systems that no longer 'read about' the world but perceive it.

When specialized cells called tanycytes stop working, disease-causing tau proteins build up in the brain. A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the ...

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these exceptional brains were signs of what some scientists believe to be newborn ...

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game—sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.