Too much sensory input can overstimulate your brain and cause emotional distress or shutdown. Sensory overload can happen with anxiety disorders, autism, and ADHD, but anyone can experience it. Taking ...

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Researchers from Bielefeld University, Oxford University (Great Britain), and Aix-Marseille University (France) investigated this phenomenon of flexibility in perception, and have now published a ...

Neuroscientists have revealed how sensory input is transformed into motor action across multiple brain regions in mice. The research shows that decision-making is a global process across the brain ...

A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and ...

The traditional school environment is often a storm of sensory input that can overwhelm a student on the autism spectrum ...

Sensory processing disorder—also known as SPD or sensory integration disorder—is a term describing a collection of challenges that occur when the senses fail to respond properly to the outside world.

(l-r) David Golomb and David Kleinfeld are two of the principal investigators on a new NIH BRAIN Initiative grant. or all animals, sensory processing is a matter of survival. Sight, smell, touch, ...

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As we go about our daily lives, we are constantly bombarded by a steady stream of sensory information. Take a typical morning routine for example- roused from sleep by a shrill alarm, the strong aroma ...