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February 15, 2020

A team of researchers in the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory of Juergen Konczak showed recently that applying vibration to the skin above the voice box (Adam’s apple) can improve the voice quality in SD within 30 minutes of stimulation...


February 14, 2020

Rachel will share in CATSS front-office duties and assist with program management...


February 05, 2020

A large and engaged audience attended UMRA’s January 2020 Living Well Workshop on hearing loss presented by Liz Anderson, PhD, an audiologist and researcher at the University’s Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science...


October 15, 2019

The ability to locate visual and auditory stimuli is important in many everyday tasks. While localization may be taken for granted in many healthy adults, many forms of sensory impairment result in difficulty localizing stimuli in the impaired modality...


October 15, 2019

Doctoral students in the NRT training program in Sensory Science have developed a science communication partnership with residents at Abiitan Mill City, a retirement community in downtown Minneapolis...


June 03, 2019

Dr. Jordan Beim has taken over for Andy Byrne as the CATSS/MSP lab coordinator...


May 15, 2019

As part of its outreach mission, CATSS occasionally receives names and contact information of individuals who are interested in participating in sensory research. We wished to expand our capability for interfacing with the public in this way...


May 14, 2019

To commemorate its 150th anniversary in 2018, the College of Liberal Arts commissioned 60 photographs taken by Xavier Tavera. Departments and programs partnered with Tavera to envision their images and to write the narratives that accompany each photograph. (View On Purpose: Portrait of the Liberal Arts.)

Sensory loss - or loss of vision, hearing, and balance - increases with age and can be related to a decline in quality of life...

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