The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this ...

Sergio Parra, Héctor Díaz, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Jerónimo Zizumbo, Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Sebastián Pujalte, Lucas Bayones, Ranulfo Romo, Román Rossi-Pool, Hierarchical unimodal processing ...

The passage of time is sensed, perceived, and experienced, but—unlike for touch, vision, hearing, and olfaction—there exist no sensory receptors for time. This fact has long tantalized ...

This four-part assembloid contains somatosensory, spinal, thalamic and cortical organoids, covering the entirety of such a pathway from e.g. one’s skin to the brain’s cortex where the sensory ...