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Questions about the ways that our bodies processes incoming visual, auditory, gustatory, somatosensory, proprioceptive, and pain (among others) information

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Do people with birth defects feel phantom limbs?

The phenomenon of phantom limbs in people who have lost arms or legs to amputation is pretty well-established. It makes a fair amount of sense. The "brain mapping" of the limb (and for that matter the nerves that led to it) don't go away just…
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Is Sensation Seeking Still a Thing?

The first time I read an article, which offered me a high level basic understanding of a behavioral model called sensation seeking, changed the way I look at world since. This was the first time I'd found myself so enamoured by such a simplistic…
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Synesthesia hearing to see

Can a synesthetic person, also known as a synaesthete, see sounds even when that person is actually blind? If so how does the brain interpret a picture without a vision?
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