For instance, reading a word like cinnamon activates the portion of the brain that processes scent, in addition to the language processing areas.
It's not the part of your brain that processes plot, character, story.
That part of my brain that processes sound works a lot harder than average.
It excites the palate and gently, deliciously, confuses the bit of the brain that processes taste, temperature and texture.
Instead, conscious experience is tied to the brain that processes the stimulus.
Researchers know exactly how and where this fear memory is hardwired in the rat's amygdala, a part of the brain that processes emotions.
This light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments shoot signals to the part of the brain that processes these signals into an image.
The olfactory bulb also sends signals to the piriform cortex, an area of the brain that processes learned associations.
Notably, research shows that there is no single dedicated "social cognition faculty" in the brain that processes all social information.
She and her collaborators looked at 44 healthy adults ages 55 to 76, measuring electrical activity in a region of the brain that processes sound.
The problem persists because the cataracts disrupt the normal development of the child's visual cortex, the area of the brain that processes visual information.
