Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

Most of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It’s a neat list and easy ...

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network ...

For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that humans navigate the world with just five senses: sight, hearing, smell, ...

The advent of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has had a colossal impact on virtually every aspect of human life, transforming the way many tasks and even professions are being handled ...

I am an occupational therapist working with all humans on understanding & regulating their own unique sensory system. Most sensory based OT's work with children, but after 8 years of working with ...

Most insects have dedicated sensory systems to detect water vapor in the air, but little has been known about how they work. Now researchers are the first to discover a sensory system that directly ...

Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This behavior, termed whisking, has been ...