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...perceptions, knowledge and understanding about autism and ASD witnesses, their perceptions regarding identification processes and their effectiveness when used with vulnerable eyewitnesses. In this project the aim is to use data from a questionnaire survey with police officers and senior officers, as well as data from the ASD community exploring their perceptions of...

...gland in its abdomen, which contains a small amount of the ketone muskone, a ring-like molecule that resembles civetone and creates the odour we know as musk. Both of these chemicals are nowadays produced synthetically. Find out more You can learn how the senses interact with the environment in The Open University course Signals and Perception: The Science of the Senses....

...perception of pain. Pain-causing signals are detected by sensory neurons (or nociceptors) that pass this information through chemicals such as glutamate, via synapses in the spinal cord, up into the brain. But this ascending signal can be “dampened down” by alcohol, which is how it achieves some of its pain-dulling effects. Unfortunately, research suggests that this...