How Our Brains Overrule Our Senses
Monday, December 7, 2015 - 14:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog in the distance, repetition of these weak or ambiguous sensory "inputs" can result in different perceptions inside the same brain. Now the results of new research, described in Nature Neuroscience, have identified brain processes in mice that may help explain how those differences happen.