It’s not all about what see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

We all know about our five senses and the importance they play in our daily lives: smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. Some scientists say that we have many more that just five senses, and they ...

Why do we avoid getting our hopes up? I suggest that this is because affect is attached to our meaningful goals, as ...

Most of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It’s a neat list and easy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time Maggie May, an Arkansas resident in her 30s, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic in 2024, she had been struggling for ...

Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...

Playground play helps with so many of our sensorimotor systems. When we talk about emotion regulation in children, we sometimes forget that these systems rely on much smaller building blocks — our ...

Our human senses apparently don’t stop at five—as recent research shows, we may have over thirty. Most of our experiences are multisensory, and involve lesser-known senses like proprioception and ...

The treatment was unusual in that alongside talk therapy, May underwent several sessions in a sensory-deprivation chamber: a dark, soundproof room where she floated in a shallow pool of water heated ...