Where innovation comes to life.
The Sense Innovation and Research Center creates and disseminates knowledge about the senses and human behaviour for the benefit of society. To achieve this, The Sense federates applied, basic and clinical research. Our impact extends across the lifespan, improving performance or clinical outcome of sensory (dys)function.
Perception & Cognition
The primary focus of research and innovation within the axis of Perception and Cognition is to determine WHAT establishes and maintains sensory processes as a scaffold for higher-level functions. WHAT neurobiological mechanisms translate sensory signals into the information that our brains use to make us who we are? WHAT neurobiological mechanisms allow us to perceive, to think, and to create?
The Sense discovers the WHAT.
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Repair
Intervening to alter the status quo in health, dysfunction and disease is the primary focus of research and innovation within the axis of Action and Repair. WHERE does sensory information operate to transform thoughts into perceptions and actions? WHERE are the access points for repairing dysfunction? WHERE are the limits of neuroplasticity? WHERE is the pathway for rehabilitation?
The Sense targets the WHERE.
LEARN MOREDevices & Data
Addressing the current and foreseeing the future hardware and software solutions to this question is the primary focus of research and innovation within the axis of Devices and Data. HOW can we better understand human function and dysfunction? HOW can we acquire better measurements and metrics? HOW can we optimize the information available in data and improve their interpretability?
The Sense creates the HOW.
LEARN MORENews
The Sense and the Musée de la main UNIL-CHUV receive an Agora grant for the immersive exhibition “Sensationnel: An Inquiry into the Senses”.
Several principal investigators from The Sense, together with Carolina Liebling from the Musée de la main UNIL-CHUV, have received an Agora grant to develop an immersive and interactive exhibition dedicated to the human senses…
$300,000 Grant to Identify Biomarkers for Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
The research unit led by Prof. Chantal Berna Renella has received $300,000 in funding from The Ehlers-Danlos Society…
Research and Industry: A Study on NOA and BuzzClip to Enhance Autonomy for People Who Are Blind
Moving independently remains a daily challenge for people who are blind or visually impaired…
