Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.
The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...
The somatosensory system consists of the peripheral receptors and neural pathways through which the nervous system detects ... in rats to show that covert sensory input influences the dynamics ...