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So my interest in my lab is sensory substitution for the deaf, and this is a project I've undertaken with a graduate student in my lab, Scott Novich, who is spearheading this for his thesis.
Now, we've been very encouraged by our results with sensory substitution, but what we've been thinking a lot about is sensory addition.
We no longer have to wait for Mother Nature's sensory gifts on her timescales, but instead, like any good parent, she's given us the tools that we need to go out and define our own trajectory.
CA: Well look, just to be skeptical for a minute, I mean, this is amazing, but isn't most of the evidence so far that sensory substitution works, not necessarily that sensory addition works?
In terms of beyond sensory substitution, the things I started mentioning about astronauts on the space station, they spend a lot of their time monitoring things, and they could instead just get what's going on, because what this is really good for is multidimensional data.
It brutally draws us in to a virtual sensory awareness of the world much like meditation."
We can have various organisms in artificial worlds compete and see which survive and which thrive, which sensory systems are more fit.
Information, in the form of energy, streams in simultaneously through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, what this present moment smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.
Stimulation coming in through my sensory systems felt like pure pain.
Each sensory experience activates a unique set of brain areas.
In order to become lasting memories, these sensory experiences have to be consolidated by the hippocampus, influenced by the amygdala, which emphasizes experiences associated with strong emotions.
The hippocampus then encodes memories, probably by strengthening the synaptic connections stimulated during the original sensory experience.
During a normal REM cycle, you're experiencing a number of sensory stimuli in the form of a dream, and your brain is unconscious and fully asleep.
The most common theory has to do with mismatched sensory signals.
For most of our history, there wasn't that much that could cause this sensory mix-up, except for poisons.
Damage didn't cause motor or sensory deficits, so authorities concluded they didn't do anything.
Instead, what's really happening is that certain compounds in spicy foods activate the type of sensory neurons called polymodal nociceptors.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
All his knowledge had come from his sensory perceptions of the world.
After immediate sensory data is temporarily transcribed by neurons in the cortex, it travels to the hippocampus, where special proteins work to strengthen the cortical synaptic connections.
At first detection of low water levels, sensory receptors in the brain's hypothalamus signal the release of antidiuretic hormone.
The grey matter processes information in the brain, directing signals and sensory stimuli to nerve cells, while white matter is mostly made up of fatty tissue and nerve fibers.
In 20% of cases, these attacks are intense enough to overload the brain with electrical energy, which hyper-excites sensory nerve endings.
Our limbs are full of sensory neurons responsible for everything from the textures we feel with our fingertips to our understanding of where our bodies are in space.
Neural pathways carry this sensory input through the spinal cord and up to the brain.
Once they pass through the spinal cord, sensory signals reach the brain.
The cortical homunculus is a model of the human body with proportions based on the size of each body part’s representation in the cortex, The amount of cortex devoted to a specific body part can grow or shrink based on how much sensory input the brain receives from that body part.
But if we could get such maps, if we could look at the organization of molecules and neurons and neurons and networks, maybe we could really understand how the brain conducts information from sensory regions, mixes it with emotion and feeling, and generates our decisions and actions.
Instead, it’s our sensory experience of a chemical reaction called combustion.
All of these are sensory clues that a chemical reaction is taking place.
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