by Jennifer Michalowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Researchers used the brain mapping technology, BARseq, to study hundreds of neurons at a time in the mouse olfactory bulb. In this tissue section of a mouse olfactory bulb, different colors denote different barcoded neurons. Credit: CSHL, 2022 Our sense of smell has a powerful effect on our...
A team of neuroscientists from Göttingen and Tehran shows how our brain combines visual features to achieve a unified percept DEUTSCHES PRIMATENZENTRUM (DPZ)/GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER To investigate how information of different visual features is processed in the brain, the neuroscientists from the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute of Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany, the Iran University of Science and Technology and the...
by Robert Pepperell, The Conversation Perception is utterly baffling. We can precisely describe the biological structure of eyes and brains. We can measure the electrochemical impulses and electrical fields generated by neurons. But reason fails us when we attempt to explain how these physical processes cause all the vivid colours, textures and objects that appear in...
RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM Numerous studies to date have shown that olfactory receptors are relevant not only for smell perception but that they also play a significant physiological and pathophysiological role in all organs. An overview of receptors detected so far and of the functions, they fulfill within the human body is provided by Prof Dr. Habil....
