Sensory processing and behavior are fundamental to understanding how organisms detect, integrate, interpret, and respond to information from their environment. Research in this field spans sensory neuroscience, neural circuits, perception, cognition, and behavioral adaptation, with important implications for understanding normal nervous system function and sensory, neurological, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Despite substantial progress, major challenges remain in elucidating how sensory information is processed across molecular, cellular, and systems levels, how sensory signals are integrated across modalities and interact with attention, memory, learning, emotions, and internal physiological states, and how these processes shape perception and behavior. Further challenges include understanding neural plasticity, individual variability, and age-related changes, as well as translating findings from experimental models into clinical applications.

This Collection aims to bring together interdisciplinary research advancing our understanding of sensory processing and its relationship with behavior across preclinical and clinical settings. Contributions are invited across all sensory modalities, including vision, audition, olfaction, gustation, somatosensation, pain, vestibular processing, and multisensory integration, as well as their roles in cognition, sensorimotor function, learning, decision-making, and adaptive behavior.

The Collection welcomes methods, original research, review, and case report articles covering experimental protocols, imaging, electrophysiology, computational modeling, behavioral assays, neurostimulation, clinical assessments, and other relevant experimental and clinical approaches.

By integrating diverse topics, this Collection will facilitate knowledge exchange, highlight emerging discoveries, address critical knowledge gaps, and support the development of improved experimental tools, diagnostic approaches, and therapeutic strategies for sensory and neurological conditions.