New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

And yet the role it plays in our lives is inescapable. Smell activates many parts of our brain, including our limbic system, which plays a key role in memory recall. That's why the aroma of baking ...

Neurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough food – and since people probably have the same cells, we might one day manipulate them to help treat obesity.

Anosmia is the loss of your sense of smell, and is often caused by a viral infection. It affected many people during the ...

These differences are due to the fact that anosmia can be caused by a variety of things, not just by a viral infection, like ...

It’s like looking in the mirror and not seeing anything. It’s a very weird state to be in,” says Chrissi Kelly, founder of ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit ... to carry messages from a brain region that processes sensory information, the entorhinal cortex (EC), to the memory processing center in the ...

It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." ...