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Our senses send more information to our brains than we can process. Every second, our brains receive around 11 million bits of information. But scientists estimate that our conscious minds can only ...

Producing real-world creative objects and demonstrating high levels of “divergent thinking,” or the ability to quickly produce cognitive ideas, are both aspects of creativity but the two traits are ...

A new episode of The William Gomes Podcast offers a clear and compassionate exploration of sensory processing in autism, ...

The literary great Marcel Proust wore ear-stoppers because he was unable to filter out irrelevant noise - and lined his bedroom with cork to attenuate sound. Now new Northwestern University research ...

"I can't handle the modern era," Ann told me. What this middle-aged professional finds overwhelming is the intensity and frequency of sensory inputs from her environment — basically, sounds, sights, ...

At any given moment, we are constantly bombarded by signals from at least four of the five senses. The visual system is constantly processing our surroundings. The auditory system is stimulated by all ...

It’s no secret that LSD causes vivid hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, one-ness with the universe, and a host of other psychedelic effects. But ever since the trippy chemical was ...

People with autism often experience hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory input. MIT neuroscientists have now identified two brain circuits that help tune out distracting sensory information, ...

Most people will startle when they hear an unexpected loud sound. The second time they hear the noise, they'll startle significantly less; by the third time, they'll barely startle at all. This ...

UAB Department of Neurosurgery Assistant Professor Zachary Irwin, Ph.D., recently received a $1.1 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health Research to investigate the impacts of ...