Hand choice, an unconscious decision, is influenced by target-related information, but if these are non-informative, the choice will be approximately 50-50. In this equilibrium situation, non-target ...

When he’s curled up inside the womb, your baby doesn’t have much exploring to do. But even in this protected world, a fetus is actively developing a sense of touch.

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain's somatosensory or "tactile" cortex, increasing the potential ...

1 University of Toronto, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, Toronto ...

When Nathan Copeland suffered a car accident in 2004, damage to his spinal cord at the C5/C6 level resulted in tetraplegic paralysis. This left him initially at the age of 18 years old to consider a ...

As sensory receptors in our skin, muscles, bones, joints and organs are triggered by a specific stimulus, this signal passes to the somatosensory region in the brain which is uniquely attributed to ...

COVID-19, the disease resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection, is associated with highly variable clinical outcomes that range from asymptomatic disease to death. For those with milder infections, ...

While there’s currently no cure for somatic tinnitus, there are treatments to help relieve your symptoms. Tinnitus refers to the perception of sound without an external source ― in other words, ...

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