Background. Risk-taking behavior is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in
adolescence. In the context of decision theory and motivated (goal-directed) behavior, risk …

The vibrissa sensory system is a key model for investigating principles of sensory
processing. Specific frequency ranges of vibrissa motion, generated by rodent sensory …

Why is the human brain fundamentally limited when attempting to execute two tasks at the
same time or in close succession? Two classical paradigms, psychological refractory period …

Both humans and animals can discriminate signals delivered to sensory areas of their brains
using electrical microstimulation. This opens the possibility of creating an artificial sensory …

The human brain efficiently solves certain operations such as object recognition and
categorization through a massively parallel network of dedicated processors. However …

Active, self-touch and the passive touch from an external source engage comparable
afferent mechanoreceptors on the touched skin site. However, touch directed to glabrous …

Isolated taste cells, taste buds and strips of lingual tissue from taste papillae secrete ATP
upon taste stimulation. Taste bud receptor (Type II) cells have been identified as the source …

This study examines with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and with functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) whether 20 min of repetitive peripheral magnetic …

During voluntary movement, there exists a well known functional sensory attenuation of
afferent inputs, which allows us to discriminate between information related to our own …

Neurophysiological data suggest that the integration of prior information and incoming
sensory evidence represents the neural basis of the decision-making process. Here, we …