When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain ...

The research team included Kimberlee D’Ardenne GS, psychology professor and co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute Jonathan Cohen, co-director of the Neuroscience of Cognitive Control ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers investigated the response of individual neurons in specific regions of the brain to olfactory cues. Through neural activity recordings during odor ...

Most of us take our senses for granted, at least until one of them stops working. But despite the usefulness of smell, sight, touch and the other senses, they took millions of years to work themselves ...