Throughout their everyday life, most people engage in many activities that require varying degrees of attention. As they take part in these activities, the brain processes the sensory information it ...

Can practices focusing on breath enhance perception of inner and exterior conditions and modulate brain states?

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different senses and shift our attention from one ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology developed a trained sensory evaluation system that links the chemical structures of polyphenols with bitterness, acidity, and astringency, helping ...