Visual feedback is just as important as a sense of body position when it comes to the involuntary reflexes that activate muscle movement, says a new study in the open-access journal eLife. The ...

Until now, the sensory neurons inside the tooth were primarily thought to send pain signals to the brain, but a new study shows those neurons are multitaskers that also trigger a jaw-opening reflex ...

WE have already referred to certain of the researches carried out on the special senses by F. Allen and his collaborators in describing his investigation of the tactile sensory reflex. A recent paper ...

We are receiving a multitude of sensory inputs at all times. Where are they coming from, and how do we balance them all out, ...

Researchers have developed an artificial nervous system that could give prosthetic limbs or robots reflexes and the ability to sense touch. Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have ...