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·May 29, 2024·4 min read

Illusory Touch: Creating Real Sensations with Phantom Vibrations

Researchers discovered the minimal distance required for a vibrating point to create a phantom sensation of movement on the skin. By placing two vibrotactile actuators on different skin locations, they demonstrated that people could feel an illusory moving point between them.

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·October 27, 2023·5 min read

Hair Follicles’ Hidden Role in Touch Sensation

A new study uncovered a previously unknown mechanism in hair follicles that allows us to detect touch. Previously, sensation was attributed only to nerve endings in the skin, but this study reveals that cells within hair follicles can also sense touch.

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·October 11, 2021·6 min read

Unraveling the Mystery of Touch

Study provides a new understanding of the neuroscience mechanisms that make some parts of the body so sensitive to touch.

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·April 5, 2017·5 min read

Finger Prosthesis Provides Clues to Brain Health

An experiment aimed to investigate how the brain interprets artificial touch sensation from a finger neuroprosthesis, has revealed new information for developing way to measure brain health.

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·October 26, 2015·4 min read

Step Closer to Prosthetic Limbs That Recreate Sense of Touch

Researchers are one step closer to developing a prosthetic arm that can recreate a sense of touch through a direct brain interface.

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·October 19, 2015·3 min read

Tickled Pink? Why Babies Don’t Experience Tickles the Way We Think They Do

Infants in the first four months of life feel when people tickle them and wiggle their feet without connecting the sensation to that person, a new study reports.

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·September 14, 2015·3 min read

Feeling Touch with a Prosthetic Hand

Researchers report a person who has been paralyzed for more than a decade has become the first person to be able to 'feel' physical sensations through a prosthetic hand directly connected to his brain.