Some of the traditional senses are combinations of several senses. Touch, for instance, involves pain, temperature, itch, and ...

You can't selectively feel. When we mute pain to survive, we mute joy, too. Recognize the pattern, and find the way back.

For decades, humans know about the five traditional senses famously described by Aristotle. However, a new research study has ...

Meaningfulness is key factor in determining how strongly our affect is attached to our goals. People are willing to withstand interoceptive pain if there is a meaningful enough reason for doing so.

New research on heart rate variability suggests that composure isn’t a personality trait. It’s a physiological skill the nervous system can train—one that may determine who thrives when the stakes are ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

Understanding the science of hunger and mood reveals why some people get 'hangry' faster, emphasising the importance of ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...

Men’s Health writer Jamie Carson sheds his layers to find out if baring all can improve mental health and body positivity ...

Neuroscientist Charles Spence and philosopher of mind Casey O’Callaghan are among a growing group of researchers who argue that the schoolbook list of five senses is badly out of date. Drawing on work ...

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