Sensory Perception Articles

• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
  Intelligence
  Language Acquisition
  Memory
   
  

  Amygdala

  The amygdala (Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is an almond-shape set of neurons located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe. Shown to play a key role in the processsing of emotions, the amygdala ... > more
• Pain Control
  Fibromyalgia
  Neuropathy
  Joint Pain
  Back and Neck Pain
  Arthritis
   

  Pain

  Pain's an unpleasant sensation which may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and which may have physical and emotional components. According to the International Association for the ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Intelligence
  Brain Tumor
  Neuroscience
  Accident and Trauma
   

  Traumatic brain injury

  Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. With mild TBI, the patient may ... > more
• Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Behavior
  Relationships
  Intelligence
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Social cognition

  Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ... > more
• Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Perception
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
   
  

  Stuttering

  Stuttering (known as stammering in the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, ... > more
• Psychology
  Consumer Behavior
  Intelligence
  Dementia
  Tinnitus
  Behavior
   
  

  Exposure effect

  Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. This effect has been nicknamed the ... > more
• Insomnia Research
  Insomnia
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Disorders and Syndromes
   

  Sleep deprivation

  Sleep deprivation is an overall lack of the necessary amount of sleep. A person can be deprived of sleep by their own body and mind, insomnia, or actively deprived by another individual. Sleep ... > more
• Autism
  Neuroscience
  Social Psychology
  Brain Injury
  Monkeys
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Mirror neuron

  A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially conspecific) animal. Thus, the neuron ... > more
• Anxiety
  Psychiatry
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychology Research
   
  

  Anxiety

  Anxiety is a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create the feelings that we typically recognize as fear, ... > more
• Relationships
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Psychology Research
  Neuroscience
   
  

  Laughter

  Laughter is the biological reaction of humans to moments or occasions of humor: an outward expression of amusement. Laughter is subcategorised into various groupings depending upon the extent and ... > more

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