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TOUCH

touch

Figure 1:Touch is not a sense like the others.[1]

Our sense of touch is not an actual sense.

PHYSICS

Temperature

Pain

Pressure

Vibration

PSYCHOLOGY

Psychophysics

Social Touch

ANATOMY

Skin

Unencapsulated Receptors

Encapsulated Receptors

Cross-section of an encapsulated skin receptor.

Figure 3:Cross-section of an encapsulated skin receptor.[2]

BRAIN

Spinal Cord

Thalamus

S1

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