How Your Skin Feels
    Body & Brain

    How Your Skin Feels

    Touch isn't one sense — it's five. Different sensors for pressure, vibration, stretch, temp, pain.

    Cat fur. Ice cube. Hot pan. A feather. All different feelings. Touch isn't one sense — it's five. Maybe more. Working together.

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    MechanoreceptorsSensor DensityHomunculusPain