The primary mission of the WSBC is to foster and conduct high-quality scientific research that advances the understanding of our sensory systems and disorders related to them. A major role of the ...

Animals, including humans, rely on multiple senses to navigate their environments and make decisions. This integration of ...

New research reveals how the brain rapidly adapts to sensory changes using a feedback loop between the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb.

Our research addresses this fundamental question, providing critical insights into how the brain organizes and represents emotional information across different sensory modalities and as a result ...

The human brain is often lauded as one of nature's most extraordinary creations, as our sensory systems take in trillions of bits of information per second. Yet only a fraction of that makes it to ...

Sensory systems include the parts of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information ... receptors that sense the sensory stimuli, brain areas involved in sensory perception ...

Columbia scientists have identified specialized brainstem neurons that tell mice when to stop eating. These cells integrate ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have unveiled the existence of the so-called conditioned immune response (CIR), ...

It would not be surprising if hearing acuity impacted low-level acoustic processing of speech, particularly in sensory regions of the brain. However, the presence of a significant interaction ...