Biophysicists in Germany are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky ...

THE fourth Victor Horsley Memorial Lecture was delivered on July 20 in the Medical School of University College Hospital by Prof. E. D. Adrian, who discussed the Visceral Sense Organs. The action of ...

LITTLE is definitely known from the physiological point of view of many of the sense organs of insects. Except in the case of the eyes and the tactile hairs, it is largely a matter of conjecture to ...

When sense perceptions from various sense organs are processed in the brain, this information is integrated - for example, when we are watching a ventriloquist, our brain combines information ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...

Professor Malcolm MacIver talks about a new approach to collecting animal movement data and its significance for the robotics field. Think about the number of times in a day your body moves in ...

Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 159-165 (7 pages) From 25 to 30 sense organs are present on each antennal flagellum of a female bird louse, ...