Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

Some of the traditional senses are combinations of several senses. Touch, for instance, involves pain, temperature, itch, and ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...

For decades, humans know about the five traditional senses famously described by Aristotle. However, a new research study has ...

A whimsical waltz where yellow peels meet fluffy heels, proving that some melodies are simply too sweet to split.

Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing our ...

We often think of perception as limited to the five traditional senses, yet modern neuroscience suggests the human body may rely on dozens of interconnected sensory systems. These senses work together ...

Abstract: Smell (olfaction) can be critical to our daily living - for example, smelling smoke from a fire in time to leave a burning building - but it is seldom used in data visualizations or virtual ...