Skin-to-skin contact between a parent and newborn reduces how strongly a baby's brain responds to pain.
Study identifies specific neurons that help activate sensory processing in nearby nerve cells. The findings suggest ways the brain integrates signals essential for tactile perception and learning.
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.
According to a new study, exploring objects through touch can generate detailed, lasting memories of the object, even when people don't intend to memorize the details of the object.
Study points to the evolutionary and developmental similarities between sensory cells in the inner ear and skin.
Findings could lead to exciting new treatments for spinal cord injury and stroke patients, researchers report.
Lacking sound input, the primary auditory cortex “feels” touch. The finding reveals how the early loss of a sense affects brain development. It adds to a growing list of discoveries that confirm the impact of experiences and outside influences in molding the developing brain.
Newly designed electronic skin allows a robotic hand to sense differences in temperature between hot and cold. Additionally, the skin can interpret computer signals to help the hand reproduce sign language, researchers report.
Study provides a new understanding of the neuroscience mechanisms that make some parts of the body so sensitive to touch.
A gene commonly associated with the sense of touch may also play an important role in the sense of smell, researchers report.
Micro-saccades, or tiny eye movements, can be used as an index of our ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment, independent of the information's sensory modality.
DARPA's HAPTIX program seeks to provide amputees with natural touch sensations.
