Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Scientists from Delft, Vienna, and Lausanne discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction.

Researchers found spinal disinhibition in people with fibromyalgia, adding new clues about the role of central pain ...

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Furthermore, the researchers have chosen a design that makes sensory and motor processing distinct with separate architectures. They choose actively generated temporal sequences of sensory and motor ...

Why can we only think about one thing at a time? The brain seems to operate in two distinct modes: the “outer” brain handles fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals, whereas the “inner” brain ...

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Some of them provide both sensory and motor function and are thus called mixed nerves ... the communicating branches of the nerve formed a loop. In one case, it formed two loops. Other research shows ...