Such questions may sound ridiculous, but a huge body of literature shows us that the human brain naturally merges sensory experiences. We may not be conscious of the phenomenon, but we associate ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

2009). The anatomical and functional properties of neurons in the sensory cortices are particularly sensitive to modification by environmental stimuli during a limited developmental window, known as ...

Key molecules, such as the transduction channel, may be present in only a few tens of copies per sensory hair cell, compounding the difficulty. Moreover, fundamental differences in the mechanism ...

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the corpus. In the proximal colon, the transduction was higher in cholinergic than inhibitory (nNOS) or sensory (calbindin) myenteric neurons, while there was no transduction in enteric glia. We also ...

Most people aged over 70 will have some hearing loss. They may consider themselves deaf, ‘hard of hearing’ or having ‘acquired hearing loss’. This may be due to age-related damage to the ears, or ...