An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think
The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the ...
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Human sense of touch consists of 16 unique types of nerve cells: Study challenges notion of one type for each sensation
No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities ...
Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, new study suggests
Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a ...
Human Brains Are Not As Fast As We Previously Thought, Study Reveals
Notably, a bit is the basic unit of information in computing with a typical Wi-Fi connection processing about 50 million bits ...
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Making sense of the human face
Like other seminal discoveries, Kanwisher’s finding made sense in hindsight ... role in defining the function of these regions in human face recognition.” Tsao and Freiwald’s subsequent ...
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The tongue and taste buds
On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything they come into contact with. This taste ...
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Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis ...