News tagged with sensory systems
Research team develops mathematical model to explain harmony in music
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bernardo Spagnolo of the University of Palermo in Italy and his Russian colleagues have developed a model that they believe explains why it is we humans hear some notes as harmonious, and ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Computer scientists form mathematical formulation of the brain's neural networks
As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the electronic age, they still quest ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies (w/ Video)
Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers elbow their way to the front? It turns out that ...
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Ocean acidification leaves clownfish deaf to predators
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Industrial Revolution, over half of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels has been absorbed by the ocean, making pH drop faster than any time in the last 650,000 years and ...
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Microbial study reveals sophisticated sensory response
All known biological sensory systems, including the familiar examples of the five human senses – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – have one thing in common: when exposed to a sustained change ...
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Optical technique reveals unnexpected complexity in mammalian olfactory coding
A team co-led by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has shed light -- literally -- on circuitry underlying the olfactory system in mammals, giving us a new view of how that system may pull off some of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Fish study turns colour vision theory inside out
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists at the Queensland Brain Institute have found that animals are not always as brightly coloured as they seem - at least not to their counterparts.
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Finding the Right Connection after Spinal Cord Injury
In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 02, 2009 |
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Ears tuned to water
(PhysOrg.com) -- For bats any smooth, horizontal surface is water. Even so if vision, olfaction or touch tells them it is actually a metal, plastic or wooden plate. Bats therefore rely more on their ears than ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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How the 'Quarter' Horse won the rodeo
American Quarter Horses are renowned for their speed, agility, and calm disposition. Consequently over four million Quarter horses are used as working horses on ranches, as show horses or at rodeos. New research ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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'Quake' reveals how eyes and ears keep us balanced
(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthquake machine has been used by vision scientists to confirm that instead of working in isolation, our visual and middle-ear systems work together, to give us an improved sense of balance.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Researcher uses medical imaging technology to better understand fish senses
University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically ...
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder
(June 21, 2009) - Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Bay ...
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Researchers use the common cockroach to fine-tune robots of the future
Ask anyone who has ever tried to squash a skittering cockroach -- they're masters of quick and precise movement. Now Tel Aviv University is using their maddening locomotive skills to improve robotic technology ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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