Articles about 'senses'

Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently.

As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so important in their own work.

The capacity for language is what sets us apart from other animals. Talk with Your Hands, the third of four Cambridge Shorts films, explores the richness of sensory perception in interviews with blind and deaf people together with insights from neuroscientists.  

People with autism are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research in the journal Molecular Autism.

New research indicates that a bird’s ability to detect changes in air pressure is the evolutionary remnant of an ancient sense organ found in sharks and sturgeons.