Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

By studying how retronasal odors trigger taste-like brain activity, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive ...

“There’s a brain region close to your temples ... The researchers think this signal is then evaluated by another region, the anterior insula, which was active while participants were completing the ...

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging provides evidence that the psychoactive component in cannabis, ...

Too much alone time during teenage years may do more than affect friendships. While some solitude is normal, persistent ...

I remember patients more by the geography of their brain tumour than by the topography of their face. Vivek’s tumour was in ...