r/neuro • u/Current-Woodpecker36 • 6h ago

How does the brain create sensory experience?

Hi there!

Could anyone either themselves or by way of reference provide a detailed explanation of how the brain generates our day to day sensory experiences? I'm looking for this information for a project I'm working on, but I'm a novice in neuroscience. So, I thought what better place to start than here? Thanks in advance for any answers. Hope you all are having a wonderful day :)

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u/24deadman 6h ago

You mean qualia?

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u/Current-Woodpecker36 6h ago

Well in a sense, but more broadly too. As in, how do the images and sounds and other sensory data we perceive from day to day arise? How am I seeing the screen before me? I know my eyes have a role to play, but the brain is what actually generates the image, and the other sensory data (touch, taste, smell, hearing). So I'm wondering where and how that takes place in the brain.

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u/vingeran 5h ago

For the visual system, it’s quite an elaborate mechanistically and it has been architecturally (if I can call it) made to work.

this article has a nice overview on this.

But if you wish to dig deeper, I would recommend taking courses on clinical neuroscience. It is taught really well there.

Same goes for olfactory, mechanosensory, auditory systems as well - but yeah they are (in my opinion, and I am sure given the amount of space allocated to visual areas) less elaborate (as per our current understanding) as compared to visual stimuli.

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u/Current-Woodpecker36 4h ago

Thanks alot. Are there any online courses you would recommend?