CIRCUITS in the brain can pick up the senses just like a living FM radio, scientists in Israel claim. They think that we can feel textures because the brain tirelessly monitors the changing frequencies of neurons.
According to the conventional “passive” model of the brain, sensory information such as touch passes as electrical pulses from nerve endings in the skin to the brain stem. Pulses then travel to the thalamus, a pea-shaped structure just above, and end up in a processing centre in the cortex.
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