A new study of the impact on marine life of seismic air guns, used in geological surveys of the seafloor, has found that the sensory organs and righting reflexes of rock lobster can be damaged by ...

We often think of reflexes in a physical sense. At your annual primary care check-up, your doctor may tap your leg. You naturally kick without thinking about it. However, child psychologists reveal ...

That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and arrive in time for happy hour. That ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists from Stanford University and Seoul National University say they have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify letters in ...

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