Tag: sensory information

  • Nation & World

    How to feel the heat

    A team of researchers was able to show how sensory neurons in the face detect temperature, and how this information is later passed on to the hindbrain of zebrafish, where it is processed to produce behavior.

    4 minutes
    Martin Haesemeyer, on left, and Florian Engerts
  • Nation & World

    Watching sensory information translate into behavior

    A state-of-the-art microscope built by Harvard researchers will allow scientists to capture 3-D images of all the neural activity in the brains of tiny, transparent C. elegans worms as they crawl.

    4 minutes