All bodily feelings reflect a sixth sense we have called interoception. Explore its interesting idiosyncrasies and the role ...

Humans typically are considered to have five senses, through which they perceive the world. These senses are: touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste. However, Professor Charles Spence from the ...

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

Sometimes our bodies react to the world around us before we realise, so how do internal signals such as a quickening heart or deep breathing affect our thoughts? It was day 29 of a gruelling 600-mile ...

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 ...

Most of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It’s a neat list and easy to memorize, but it's incomplete. Modern neuroscience shows that the human ...