Your brain can play tricks on you with colors. Learn what red, blue and yellow can do to your appetite. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple ...

Growing up, most of us learned about the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. But it's time to rewrite the science textbooks – at least if one scientist has anything to do with it.

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Casey O’Callaghan are among a growing group of researchers who argue that the schoolbook list of five senses is badly out of date.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 ...

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 ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers are re-examining Aristotle’s model of the five senses by investigating how the brain ...

Some animals have more than five senses or have stronger senses than humans. How do these special skills help them survive? Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

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, ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

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 ...