Tag: touch
Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought
Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact.
A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves
Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible.
Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses
Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds:
Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch
Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times.