To prevent animals from bumping into one another, their sensory organs and motor skills are in constant communication.

They’re old, but not outdated: sight and hearing are full of amazing evolutionary tricks.

Motor skills play a bigger role in vision than previously thought

Taste and smell receptors are not only found in the mouth and nose.

The structure is complex, the tasks are varied. It supports the senses, motor skills, and psyche.

Sensory impressions are integrated in the parietal lobe. This is also where the body and mind meet.

Forget about bottom-up and top-down – it’s actually quite different and, of course, much more complicated. Keywords: active sensing and predictive coding.

It is our cortex that makes us human. How does this work in sheep?

Our neurons form networks – but we are only now beginning to realize just how sophisticated our brain’s feedforward and feedback networks are.