the senses

Latham Island – more than 40 kilometers east of the coast of Tanzania and about 50 dunams in size

Bat Island: Going to the Edge of the World to Understand the Brain

Neuroscientists from the Weizmann Institute traveled to a remote island near Zanzibar to record the brain activity of mammals in the wild for the first time and study how the internal compass they use to navigate works.
The five senses, or maybe seven? Illustration: depositphotos.com

Mathematical study suggests: Seven senses – not five – are optimal for human memory

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Skoltech researchers have developed a new model of brain anagrams, suggesting that maximum memory capacity is obtained in a seven-dimensional concept space – with implications for artificial intelligence and neuroscience
Urban bat (photo: Yuval Barkai)

Bats also lose their hearing but the process happens in a moderate way in relation to their noisy living environment

Two surprising discoveries: contrary to the popular hypothesis, bats do suffer from hearing loss with age, but they apparently have surprising mechanisms that help them slow down the rate of hearing loss
hunger. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Hunger Games

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The ability to survive without food is one of the great achievements of our biology - but how does it work?
Fruit bat. Photo: depositphotos.com

The unique combination of senses that makes fruit bats excellent navigators even during the day

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Researchers found for the first time that bats navigate during the day using a combination of excellent vision and locating the echoes in their environment
SmellTracker project logo. Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute

Corona detection through self-monitoring of the sense of smell

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Close-up of a fruit bat - in a new study it was demonstrated that these bats combine visual information with sonar information in sensing the environment (Credit: Jens Reidel)

In some situations bats prefer the sense of sight over the sense of sonar

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Nevertheless. Illustration: shutterstock

Breathing air improves brain performance

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Nose. FROM PIXABAY.COM

An artificial nose produced in a XNUMXD printer

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Dr. Steve Swioklo and Professor Che Connon with the colored cornea [Courtesy: Newcastle University, UK]

A human cornea produced by a XNUMXD printer

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The way the brain deals with information that is not synchronized in time

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Photo: Dawn.

move according to attention

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How do we know how to locate our nose in space or follow the position of the arm during its movement without the sense of sight?. Photo: Barbara Piuma / Wikimedia.

Knowing where the nose is: the mechanisms of action of the sixth sense

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sense of hearing. Illustration: shutterstock

Hidden hearing loss

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neural network. Illustration: Dr. Oren

Researchers have identified a natural operating mechanism of the brain, close to a state of hallucination - and allows optimal operation from a computational point of view

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Communication between people. Illustration: shutterstock

The story that enters the brain: what happens in the head during communication between people

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A deaf student speaks to her teacher in sign language. Photo: shutterstock

The "sound" of sign language

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General anesthesia. Illustration: shutterstock

Health sciences - the hidden dangers of general anesthesia / Karina Stores

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Eye. Illustration: shutterstock

Eye tissue was printed for the first time in XNUMXD

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Reading letters directly from the subject's mind. Photo: Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The computer that reads letters directly from the brain

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Verbal communication. Illustration: shutterstock

Why is it important to us that others understand us\ Shani Wiedergorn

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A face expressing fear from the book "The expressions of fear in mother and beast" written by Darwin

A Journey to the Subscience - Fear / Roy Cezana

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An illustration of computing the five senses. Illustration: IBM

IBM's forecast for the next five years: the five senses - in the computerized version

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In the experiment planned by the team of scientists, which included Dr. Avi Sayeg, Dr. Goren Gordon and Eldad Asa from Prof. Ehud Ahisher's group and Dr. Amos Arieli, all from the Department of Neurobiology, the subjects were asked to sit on a chair with their eyes covered. Their two index fingers - In the right hand and left hand - thin elastic "bristles" 30 cm long were attached, to the base of which a position meter and a force meter were attached.

Weizmann Institute scientists attached "rat whisker bristles" to human fingers, and discovered how the brain learns to use a new sense

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From the Nobel Prize presentation

How does the cell sense its environment?

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smell the flowers From Wikipedia

The fragrance of thoughts / Deborah Blum

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Dr. Amir Amadi assembles the device for sensory transduction. Photo: The Hebrew University

Good shows ears: researchers from the Hebrew University succeeded in allowing the blind to "see" through sounds

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The minds of jazz pianists during improvisation. From a scientific study published in PLOS 1

The brain network associated with spontaneity? An organized scientific study on the improvisation of jazz musicians

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The experimental facility, with which the researchers measured the neural activity occurring in the olfactory receptors located on the olfactory membrane in the nasal cavity. An electrode is inserted into the subject's left nostril (held in place by a support rod mounted on the nose), as well as a tube, through which the odorants are injected. The device also includes control electrodes (installed on the bridge of the nose and the earlobe).

The scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered: the degree of pleasantness of smells is the basic scale according to which the perception of smell is organized

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Prof. Keren Avraham, Tel Aviv University. Illustration: Lydia Loivsky

Researchers at Tel Aviv and Bethlehem universities have uncovered genes for deafness in both nations

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It's not worth being judged by him in the next few hours

Bad taste and moral judgment

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Prof. Amir Amadi presents the device that will replace the walking stick of the blind

The device that turns the blind into bats or dolphins

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Monk's scream

How much does it really hurt??? Can we measure pain as an objective measurement?

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Prof. Roni Paz, Weizmann Institute

The evolution of danger perception

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What flavor do you like this time? Photos courtesy of Takeji Narumi

The cookie of the future?

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The acoustic laboratory at Bar-Ilan University. Photo: Sharon Ganot

The international scientific conference on speech signal processing will be held in Tel Aviv at the end of the month

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A Coca Cola bear with a red shirt

Red attracts women

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To find two channels that have no overlap between them, you have to "jump" five channels

Broadcast and let broadcast

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Cut through the retina. Except for the gray engulfing layers at the bottom, all the parts are transparent and have been painted here for demonstration purposes only. The nerve cells fill the blue volume, and the cell nuclei are pink, brown and red. The light comes from the pupil of the eye (above) and is captured in the funnels of the glial cells (green) where it is concentrated to the color-sensitive cells (membranes) marked in purple. The rest of the scattered light reaches the reed cells that are not sensitive to color (in orange). The thickness of the retina is about a quarter to half a millimeter.

A 120-year-old mystery was solved - Technion researchers found how the structure of the retina helps sharpen vision

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smell the flowers From Wikipedia

Hotter ... more perfumed

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Prof. Raphael Malach. Photo: Weizmann Institute

I see, means I am aware

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University are partners in developing a system that will make it difficult for bots to register on websites and pretend to be real users

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

How does the eye and the computer see and how does the computer learn to recognize what it sees?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The first exposure to a certain smell is characterized by a unique brain activity, which causes the smell to be burned into the memory

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The butterfly clock

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The taste of life - the taste of carbon dioxide

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Researchers from the Hebrew University have found an area of ​​the brain that is responsible for states of alertness

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A researcher at Tel Aviv University has developed a virtual "walking stick" that will allow blind people to navigate virtual worlds

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Researchers from the Hebrew University offer a solution to the mystery of the brain mechanism responsible for decoding speech

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Can the senses be trusted?

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