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touch perception

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Noun1.touch perception - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or paintouch 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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Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, says that the results raise intriguing questions about the malleability of touch perception.
Fickle finger's funny feel: digit illusion modifies touch perception by Bower, B. / Science News
Scientists are now analyzing specific pores, or channels, through cell membranes that may be responsible for touch perception, hearing and balance, as well as for the body's regulation of blood pressure, lung inflation, gut distension and other physiological processes.
Ion channels: touch at the molecular level by Silberner, Joanne / Science News
 
 
 
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