Pleasant or aversive events are better remembered than neutral events. Emotional enhancement of episodic memory has been linked to the amygdala in animal and neuropsychological studies. Using positron ...

Researchers uncovered for the first time what happens in animals' brains when they learn from subconscious, visual stimuli. In time, this knowledge can lead to new treatments for a number of ...

While the urothelium has been historically viewed primarily as a barrier, it is increasingly recognized to be a responsive structure that is capable of detecting physiological and chemical stimuli, ...

In its most simplistic form, the pain circuit in the body can be described as follows: pain stimulates pain receptors, and this stimulus is transferred via specialized nerves to the spinal cord and ...

Optimal cue integration, Bayesian Causal Inference, spatial orienting, speech illusions and other key phenomena in audiovisual perception naturally emerge from the collective behavior of a population ...