Sentences with phrase «incoming sensory information»

Willis suggests that the brain processes underlying this may involve the reticular activating system, or RAS, the brain's first filter for incoming sensory information (sights, sounds, and so on).

Scientists have discovered the point at which incoming sensory information begins to transform into a neural signal that instructs a fly's response...

Subjects with the greatest reduction of the unpleasantness of the pain — which is what most people care about — exhibited the greatest activation of regions in the orbitofrontal cortex and the largest reduction in the thalamus (gating the incoming sensory information).

Somehow, the mouse olfactory system had to evolve a way to adjust, to encode incoming sensory information so that it doesn't saturate the firing range of olfactory neurons.»