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touch perception - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation

somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

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Accompanying features like soft or scrubbing surfaces and cloth-like touch perception are affected by the substrate.

Is Moisturizing Now The Moment for Wipes?

Physical touch perception, on the other hand, could prevent undertaking such a shift in reference frames.

How Visual Body Perception Influences Somatosensory Plasticity

On the other hand, direct stimulation of the skin over the re-innervated muscles is sent back to the brain, inducing touch perception on the missing limb.

Advanced Artificial Limbs Mapped in Brain

Neurological examination disclosed a loss of touch perception and a decrease of pain and cold sensations on the right side below the T2 dermatome.

Two Cases of Spinal Tanycytic Ependymoma Associated with Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Figure 1 shows a typical multi-layer haptic coating consisting of two main coating formulations, i.e., a base coat that provides most of the coating thickness and a top coat that provides color, gloss, and touch perception.

Haptic coatings: a new and selective 3D coating technology

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